"I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do……" — Harry Crews
"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 world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design."
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Harry Crews
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25 Quotes by Harry Crews
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We want to be famous as a writer, as a poet, as a painter, as a politician, as a singer,…
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Hell came right along with God, hand in hand. The stink of sulfur swirled in the air of the church,…
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I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much.
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If you're gonna write, for God in heaven's sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to…
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The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way…
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I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you…
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The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.
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Writing a book is like torture that you don't know, but after it's done and there it is. It's a…
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The writer's job is to get naked...
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Teaching, real teaching, is - or ought to be - a messy business.
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What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.
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There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is…
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