William Kennedy Quotes

• Without a sense of place the work is often reduced to a cry of voices in empty rooms, a literature of the self, at its best poetic music; at its worst a thin gruel of the ego.

  William Kennedy

  Voice, Empty Rooms, Self

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• We are only possible as what happened to us yesterday. We all change as well move

  William Kennedy

  Moving, Yesterday, Wells

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• Anger makes people stupid.

  William Kennedy

  Stupid, People

  William Kennedy (2011). “Very Old Bones”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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• You have to beat your own problematic imagination to discover what it is you're saying and how to say it and move forward into the unknown.

  William Kennedy

  Moving, Moving Forward, Imagination

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• Aspiring writers should read the entire canon of literature that precedes them, back to the Greeks, up to the current issue of The Paris Review.

  William Kennedy

  Paris, Issues, Greek

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• Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.

  William Kennedy

  Interesting, Narrators, Stories

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• There's only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

  William Kennedy

  Hallelujah, Hoot, Walks

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• Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.

  William Kennedy

  Memories, Soul, Deeds

  William Kennedy (2011). “Roscoe”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

  William Kennedy

  Sin, Discouraging, Wells

  William Kennedy (2011). “Roscoe”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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