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Something that never happens anywhere at any time.

Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else’s truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that’s great.

Firsts Quotes

A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I’m not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn’t much good.

I don’t carry notebooks and I don’t consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don’t like writers, but then I don’t like insurance salesmen either.

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.

I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn’t have much to argue about.

Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human – they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it’s good here, it can be very good here.

I’ve found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.

I could read the great books but the great books don’t interest me.

Book Quotes

I’m only interested in poetry.

I’m going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I’ll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair.

I have been treated better than I should have been – not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

Well, we lost it, and that’s all there is to that.

People just don’t know how to write down a simple easy line. It’s difficult for them; it’s like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning – not many can do it.

I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn’t know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.

The writing’s easy, it’s the living that is sometimes difficult.

I didn’t feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can’t say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted.

As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.

I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread.

I guess for me Hemingway is a lot like it is for others: he goes down well when we are young.

It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.

They laughed. Things were funny. They weren’t afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.

It’s just that the grape has me down.

I lie as truthfully as I can.

I remember when each 4th lot was vacant and overgrown, and the landlord only go this rent when you had it, and each day was clear and good and each moment was full of promise.

They were beautiful nothings.

It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one’s self, like a fingernail.

I pretend to understand because I don’t want anybody to be hurt.

I’ll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.

If you want to create, you’ll create...

Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line.

I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age.

If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.

I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.

Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.

Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.

Don’t ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.

I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can’t be quite senseless because you are aware that it’s senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean?

Angels, we have grown apart.

We are hardly ever as strong as that which we create.

Strong Quotes

There’s nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there’s nothing else to do, and there’s usually nothing else to do.

I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It’s as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.

Banion wondered which was worse – being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.

The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most.

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

Sex can sometimes become the most horrible of tasks.

We are here to laugh at the odds.

There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I’d become a monk. I’d pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine.