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Writing Quotes by Nelson Algren
- I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.
- 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...…
- Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.
- You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A…
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