Harry Crews
Harry Crews
Harry Eugene Crewswas an American novelist, playwright, short story writer and essayist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 June 1935
CountryUnited States of America
smart believe writing
I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.
men needs world
Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.
lying writing heaven
If you're gonna write, for God in heaven's sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to get underneath all the sham, all the excuses, all the lies that you've been told.
artist world models
What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.
zoos book writing
If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands of books you should have already read - if you wait for the time, you will never do it. ‘Cause there ain’t no time; world don’t want you to do that. World wants you to go to the zoo and eat cotton candy, preferably seven days a week.
understanding stories world
The truth of the matter was stories was everything and everything was stories. Everybody told stories. It was a way of saying who they were in the world. It was their understanding of themselves. It was letting themselves know how they believed the world worked, the right way and the way that was not so right.
jobs naked
The writer's job is to get naked...
lying party home
Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.
jobs blood luxury
The writers job is to get naked, To hide nothing. To look away from nothing. To look at it. To not blink. To be not embarrassed or shamed of it. Strip it down and lets get down to where the blood is, the bone is. Instead of hiding it with clothes and all kinds of other stuff, luxury!
writing men thinking
Writers spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid thinking about. ... It takes great courage to look where you have to look, which is in yourself, in your experience, in your relationship with fellow beings, your relationship to the earth, to the spirit or to the first cause—to look at them and make something of them.
cutting broken people
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.
broken-heart beautiful hurt
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.