William Kennedy Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Anger makes people stupid.
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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.
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Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.
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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.
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There's only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
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Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.