All Nelson Algren Quotes
- Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than… Called
- I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out… Fired
- Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring. Chicago
- The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages… Age
- Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose. Broken
- The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy -yet believes this only… Believe
- It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all. All
- I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write. Bachelor
- The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D. Assessing
- There's people in hell who want ice water. Hell
- To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent. Assumed
- There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser. America
- A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by… Betrayed
- Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of… American
- I'm not against sentimentality. I think you need it. I mean, I don't think you get a true picture of people without it in writing...… Bring
- For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart. Cities
- Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. Any
- Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze… All
- Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you. Advice
- When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the… Car