Nelson Algren Quotes

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.

Nelson Algren

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• I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Time
  • Together

• Most actors go, 'I read the script and fell in love with it'; I fall in love with the directors.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Fall
  • Actors
  • Directors

• I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Character
  • Job

• My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Science
  • Action
  • Environmental

• I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.

  

  Verite
  • Future
  • Career
  • Want

• I treasure my meetings with individuals affected by autism - parents, children, teachers and friends. Their strength is inspiring. They deserve all possible opportunities for education, employment and integration.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Children
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • People
  • Kids
  • Age

• Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Sense

• I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Great
  • Grandfather
  • Valley

• Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Where
  • Fourth

• Filmmaking is a much more collaborative thing than literature, so you know you're going to be working with a group of people at the start. You know it's going to be a compromise.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Literature
  • Start

• What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Find

• Today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Work
  • Different
  • Today

• As I recovered at Walter Reed, I worried about the soldiers who pulled me out of my helicopter that Friday afternoon. Would they make it back okay? And what about all the other soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen who were also putting their lives on the line every day?

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Day
  • Lives
  • Worried

• If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Election

• Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Wisdom
  • Adversity
  • Seed

• Life is a wildly transient thing with people coming into your life and dropping away. It definitely takes work to maintain relationships.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I remember playing on pretty much an all-minority youth team and going to some of the tournaments north of Cincinnati and not being able to stay with host families where all the other teams were staying with host families.

  

  Barry Larkin
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Team

• Changes, cyclic or otherwise, within the solar system or within our galaxy, would seem to be the easy and incontrovertible solution for everything that I have found remarkable in the stratigraphical record.

  

  D. V. Ager
  • Science
  • Easy
  • Records

• For as long as I can remember the slogan has been ... the federal government ought to behave more like families, because families balance their budgets. It turns out that families looked around and said, "You know what? Let's behave more like the government!"

  

  George Will
  • Long
  • Business
  • Balance

• Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of articulate human imagination as it extends from the height of imaginative heaven to the depth of imaginative hell.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Imagination
  • Heaven
  • Literature

• I love acting. Acting is a true love of mine, acting and math. Although they are both creative, they use very different sides of your brain. And I love both. Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • True
  • Career
  • Brain

• 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.

  

  Nelson Algren
  • Creative
  • Essentials
  • Alienation