Nelson Algren Book Quotations

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.

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

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

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.