American literature Quote by Nelson Algren Download Open image ““I am the penny whistle of American literature.”” — Nelson Algren ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare American literature Books Writers
“The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
“And into the great empty quarter of America I went. Like a bottle of malt liquor or a boy’s asshole, America is. Sing that,… — Trebor Healey Copy Share Image
“I love the echoes of a home filled to the rim with poetry, books and art.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
“This is the thing about great literature. It reads like truth and sticks to you forever and lets you know that you are not… — Arlaina Tibensky Copy Share Image
“And inevitably there always crept into our discussions the figure of Whitman, that one lone figure which America has produced in the course of… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Americans have many admirable characteristics, but literary taste is rare among them.” — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
“but you are very well aware that I belong to that remarkable class of authors who, when they are bearing anything about in their… — Leslie S. Klinger Copy Share Image
“I would rather never make a penny on book sales and know that many had derived some fair pleasure from my writing, than to… — Eric Diehl Copy Share Image
“So witless did these ideas strike me as being, so sweeping and pompous the way they were expressed, that I associated them immediately with… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves,… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“For way down there, in a shot glass's false bottom, everything was bound to turn out fine after all.” — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“Without hesitation, Dove chose the nowhere road. For that was the only place, in his heart of hearts, that he really wanted to go.” — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“Big-shot town, small-shot town, jet-propelled old-fashioned town, by old-world hands with new-world tools built into a place whose heartbeat carries farther than its shout,… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“Nor all your piety nor all your preaching, nor all your crusades nor all your threats can stop one girl from going on the… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.” — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“If you feel you belong to things as they are, you won’t hold up anyone in the alley no matter how hungry you may… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity. — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
“faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win… — Nelson Algren Copy Share Image
American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison … Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
“I have seen them stagger out of their movie palaces and blink their empty eyes in the face of reality once more, and stagger… — John Fante Copy Share Image
Janet Mock's honest and sometimes searing journey is a rare and important look into la vida liminal, one that she manages to negotiate remarkably… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
Héctor Tobar's accomplished first novel affords a perspective that is overdue and urgently needed in North American literature- -an insider's vision of L.A. as… — Stuart Dybek Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of American literature that our writers are forever looking back with love and nostalgia at lives they couldn't… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Throughout African-American literature, the writer has, in a sense, been burdened by the necessity of pleading the case for the whole race. For example,… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
“Don Raimondo tells me what he can’t tell them. “The emptiness on the surface of a wall left by a sold bookshelf is the… — Erri DeLuca Copy Share Image
What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known kinds of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Sociologically, politically, psychologically, spiritually, it was never enough for James Baldwin to categorize himself as one thing or the other: not just black, not… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
