Nelson Algren Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• 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.

  Nelson Algren

  Book, Character, Feelings

• To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

  Nelson Algren

  Book, Writing, Guilty

• 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.

  Nelson Algren

  Art, Book, Limits

• The only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer until something happens.

  Nelson Algren

  Book, Plot, Way

  Nelson Algren (2011). “Entrapment and Other Writings”, p.90, Seven Stories Press

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