"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."

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Source : Nelson Algren (1999). “The Man with the Golden Arm”, p.415, Seven Stories Press

Nelson Algren

#Mean Quotes #Writing Quotes #Emotional Quotes

“The best university is the university of life.”
“Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.”
“I worked on scores. I went to the musical library in Berlin which is very famous. I discovered that we had scores of Beethoven, printed scores of Beethoven, that are full of mistakes. Not the wrong or false notes, but the wrong dynamic, understandable things.”
“My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.”
“Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.”
“The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.”
“A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love.”
“I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.”

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