Famous Nelson Algren Quotes

  • The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources. – Nelson Algren

    The farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources.– Nelson Algren

  • Without hesitation, Dove chose the nowhere road. For that was the only place, in his heart of hearts, that he really wanted to go. – Nelson Algren

    Without hesitation, Dove chose the nowhere road. For that was the only place, in his heart of hearts, that he really wanted to go.– Nelson Algren

  • That’s how it’s always been: I was always in the clear so long as I was truly guilty. But the minute my motives were honest someone would finger me. – Nelson Algren

    That’s how it’s always been: I was always in the clear so long as I was truly guilty. But the minute my motives were honest someone would finger me.– Nelson Algren

  • I am the penny whistle of American literature. – Nelson Algren

    I am the penny whistle of American literature.– Nelson Algren

  • The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man. – Nelson Algren

    The hard necessity of bringing the judge on the bench down into the dock has been the peculiar responsibility of the writer in all ages of man.– Nelson Algren

  • Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own. – Nelson Algren

    Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.– Nelson Algren

  • … Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you. – Nelson Algren

    … Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.– Nelson Algren

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

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