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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.

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.

William Kennedy
Voice, Empty Rooms, Self

We are only possible as what happened to us yesterday. We all change as well move

William Kennedy
Moving, Yesterday, Wells

Anger makes people stupid.

William Kennedy
Stupid, People
William Kennedy (2011). “Very Old Bones”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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.

William Kennedy
Moving, Moving Forward, Imagination

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.

William Kennedy
Paris, Issues, Greek

Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story.

William Kennedy
Interesting, Narrators, Stories

There's only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.

William Kennedy
Hallelujah, Hoot, Walks

Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory.

William Kennedy
Memories, Soul, Deeds
William Kennedy (2011). “Roscoe”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.

William Kennedy
Sin, Discouraging, Wells
William Kennedy (2011). “Roscoe”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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