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
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.
anyone cards eat man matter named sleep troubles whose worse
Never play cards with any man named "Doc." Never eat at any place called "Mom's." And never, never, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.
anyone cards eat man matter named sleep troubles whose worse
Never play cards with any man named ""Doc."" Never eat at any place called ""Mom's."" And never, never, no matter what else you do in your whole life, never sleep with anyone whose troubles are worse than your own.
cards eat man mom sleep troubles whose woman worse
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.
art book limits
One of the best things Henry Miller ever said was that art goes all out. It's all out. It goes full length. . . . A big book is an all-out book in which you limit your life to things that pertain directly to the book.
country rap cities
(Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.
mom culinary
Never eat in a place called 'Mom's'.
alcohol devil helping
The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gnaws and gnaws. Every day I drown him and every day he gnaws. Help me drown the worm, fellas.
monday fog tuesday
I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.
fighting boys battle
Watch for a wild boy of no particular clan, ready for anything, always armed. Prefers fighting to toil, drink to fighting, chasing women to booze or battle: may attempt all three concurrently.
book plot way
The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.
night sky cities
The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a city sky. The rush of city waters, beneath the city streets. The passionate passing of the night's last El.
writing want helping
I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.
men garbage strange
It is strange how fragile this man-creature is.....in one second he's just garbage. Garbage, that's all.