Quotes About Algren

Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.

Obsession remains the price of creation, and the writer who declines that risk will come up with nothing more creative than 'The Foxes of Harrow' or 'Mrs. Parkington.'

As certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.

When I can focus on something like guitar or painting, I do. I started painting people I admire, like Kerouac, Bob Dylan, Nelson Algren, Marlon Brando, Patti Smith, my girl, my kids.

When I burn please bury me deep Somewhere on West Division Street Put a bottle beneat' my head 'n a bottle beneat' my feet