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title: "1 Weekend Book Quotes By Blake Bailey"
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> [“ The Lost Weekend was the only book, out of five books, that I wrote sober, without stimulus or sedative.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-bailey/the-lost-weekend-was-the-only-book-out-of-five-books-that-i-wrote/)

[Blake Bailey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-bailey/)

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## More by Blake Bailey

> [“Fitzgerald's work was almost entirely out of print when 'The Lost Weekend' was published in 1944—even 'Gatsby' seemed well on its way to being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-bailey/fitzgerald-s-work-was-almost-entirely-out-of-print-when-the-lost/)

[Blake Bailey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-bailey/)

> [I myself am consummately middle class. We grew up in upper-middle-class suburbs in Oklahoma City, and thats very much the same ethos as what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-bailey/i-myself-am-consummately-middle-class-we-grew-up-in-upper-middle/)

[Blake Bailey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-bailey/)

> [The funniest novel you've never read. . . . Afternoon Men is a revelation to sophisticated readers of every stripe, but especially to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-bailey/the-funniest-novel-you-ve-never-read-afternoon-men-is-a-revelation-to/)

[Blake Bailey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-bailey/)

> [I'm a huge fan of 'The Lost Weekend.' I have this dog-eared copy of the 1963 Time Reading Program edition, which was a series…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-bailey/i-m-a-huge-fan-of-the-lost-weekend-i-have-this-dog-eared-copy-of-the/)

[Blake Bailey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-bailey/)

> [“Largely to spare his feelings, she’d spoken in rather vague terms about wanting to “find herself,” and Yates concluded that she’d become a “womens’-libbing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-bailey/largely-to-spare-his-feelings-she-d-spoken-in-rather-vague-terms/)

[Blake Bailey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-bailey/)

> [“Repeatedly Yates went berserk—raging over grievances old and new, hurling furniture at phantoms out of his past. The nurses who lived upstairs complained about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-bailey/repeatedly-yates-went-berserk-raging-over-grievances-old-and-new/)

[Blake Bailey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-bailey/)

> [My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-bailey/my-father-was-a-golden-boy-from-a-very-small-town-he-won-a-very/)

[Blake Bailey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-bailey/)

> [“As Monica Yates pointed out, “Dad didn’t notice other people. He picked up on asshole people, he could figure people out in general, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-bailey/as-monica-yates-pointed-out-dad-didn-t-notice-other-people-he-picked/)

[Blake Bailey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-bailey/)

> [“ The Lost Weekend was the only book, out of five books, that I wrote sober, without stimulus or sedative.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-bailey/the-lost-weekend-was-the-only-book-out-of-five-books-that-i-wrote/)

[Blake Bailey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-bailey/)

> [If possible, be funny.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-bailey/if-possible-be-funny/)

[Blake Bailey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-bailey/)

> [I keep three framed photographs on my desk: the latest school picture of my daughter; a photo of my wife getting her diploma from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-bailey/i-keep-three-framed-photographs-on-my-desk-the-latest-school-picture/)

[Blake Bailey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-bailey/)

> [“But what ultimately made Yates the scourge of copy editors was his simple aversion to criticism; any emendation in his manuscript, be it a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-bailey/but-what-ultimately-made-yates-the-scourge-of-copy-editors-was-his/)

[Blake Bailey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-bailey/)

> [“One of the more curious paradoxes of Yates’s nature was his almost archaic courtliness toward women on the one hand, and his lifelong tendency…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-bailey/one-of-the-more-curious-paradoxes-of-yates-s-nature-was-his-almost/)

[Blake Bailey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-bailey/)

> [“Not only had Yates continued to grow as a writer in terms of craft, but also philosophically, salvaging from the ruins of his life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-bailey/not-only-had-yates-continued-to-grow-as-a-writer-in-terms-of-craft/)

[Blake Bailey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-bailey/)

> [I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/blake-bailey/i-m-not-an-academic-i-m-just-a-bookish-joe-who-gets-passionate-about/)

[Blake Bailey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/blake-bailey/)

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