All Harry Crews Quotes
- We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer, or what you will. Why?… Allowed
- Hell came right along with God, hand in hand. The stink of sulfur swirled in the air of the church, fire burned in the aisles,… Air
- I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much. Enjoy
- I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the… Admire
- If you're gonna write, for God in heaven's sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to get underneath all the sham,… All
- The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were… Believed
- I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench… Admit
- The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure. Artist
- Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a joy like unlike anything else,… Anything Else
- The writer's job is to get naked... Get Naked
- Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business. Business
- What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living. Artist
- There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. All
- Survival is triumph enough. Inspirational
- That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night. Decision
- Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day… Alcohol
- Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober. Cold
- There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else. Inspirational
- I am not perfect." It came out in a rush of breath. "See I thought I was. Thank God I ain't. See a perfect thing… All
- I first became fascinated with the Sears catalogue because all the people in its pages were perfect. Nearly everybody I knew had something missing, a… All
- Men to whom God is dead worship one another. Dead
- Writers spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid thinking about. ...… All
- If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands of… Ain T
- The writers job is to get naked, To hide nothing. To look away from nothing. To look at it. To not blink. To be not… All
- He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him,… Carried