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
heart cities mass
For the masses who do the city's labor also keep the city's heart.
cutting car house
When we get more houses than we can live in, more cars than we can ride in, more food than we can eat ourselves, the only way of getting richer is by cutting off those who don't have enough.
real broken lovely
Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.
writing knows
Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.
writing blow creative
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.
america creative way
There is no way of being a creative writer in America without being a loser.
book character feelings
A book, a true book, is the writer's confessional. For, whether he would have it so or not, he is betrayed, directly or indirectly, by his characters, into presenting publicly his innermost feelings.
spring cities october
Chicago is an October sort of city even in spring.
sex women sleep
Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.