Edward Dahlberg

Edward Dahlberg
Edward Dahlbergwas an American novelist, essayist and autobiographer...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 July 1900
book writing scott-fitzgerald
What is most appalling in an F. Scott Fitzgerald book is that it is peopleless fiction: Fitzgerald writes about spectral, muscledsuits; dresses, hats, and sleeves which have some sort of vague, libidinous throb. These are plainly the product of sickness.
writing humiliation
To write is a humiliation.
wise horse writing
Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he utters something that is wise it is nothing that the river horse does not know, and most of his creations are the result of accident.
writing evil sin
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
writing men luck
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.
writing painter
A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.
art writing people
Those who write for lucre or fame are grosser than the cartel robbers, for they steal the genius of the people, which is its will to resist evil.
writing farming scruples
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
cat house sign three
One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy.
chance enough accepting
We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.
assuming coarse endeavor
It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.
sex spirit
The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
unattractive virtue our-time
Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
men mad justice
Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.