William Kennedy Professions : WriterBorn : January 16, 1928 Browse All Authors Top 9 quotes by William Kennedy 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-forwardimaginationmoving 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 empty-roomsvoiceself We are only possible as what happened to us yesterday. We all change as well move William Kennedy wellsyesterdaymoving Anger makes people stupid. William Kennedy stupidpeople 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 parisissuesgreek Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story. William Kennedy narratorsstoriesinteresting There's only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot. William Kennedy hallelujahhootwalks 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 deedssoulmemories Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it. William Kennedy discouragingwellssin Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writerAll Authors
