Nelson Algren
Nelson Algren
Nelson Algrenwas an American writer. He may be best known for The Man with the Golden Arm, a 1949 novel that won the National Book Award and was adapted as a 1955 film of the same name...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth28 March 1909
CountryUnited States of America
cities broken noses
Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose.
ice water people
There's people in hell who want ice water.
example poverty
And money can't buy everything. For example: poverty.
self deception vision
Our myths are so many, our vision so dim, our self-deception so deep and our smugness so gross that scarcely any way now remains of reporting the American Century except from behind the billboards ...
mean writing emotional
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... It's a kind of poetry, it's an emotional poetry, and, to bring it back to the literary scene, I don't think anything is true that doesn't have it, that doesn't have poetry in it.
responsibility writing men
The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.
wall fall dark
He was falling between glacial walls, he didn't know how anyone could fall so far away from everyone else in the world. So far to fall, so cold all the way, so steep and dark between those morphine-coloured walls...
littles stuff said
...he said, with sort of a little derisive smile, "How can you walk down the street with all this stuff going on inside you?" I said, "I don't know how you can walk down the street with nothing going on inside you.
book guilty innocent
To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
lying advice trouble
Never lie down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.
challenges humanity literature
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
men better-man providing
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
mom sleep men
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
love-you heart knowing
... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.