There are no manners left in America at all, because all you're doing is kicking the person next to you so that you can consume more, see more, and get more. James Purdy More Quotes by James Purdy More Quotes From James Purdy Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is. James Purdy haze wells ideas The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words. James Purdy insensitive illiterate america Feeling is taboo, especially in New York. I read in some little magazine the other day that The New Yorker and The New York Times were sclerotic, meaning, "completely turned to rock." The critics here are that way. James Purdy rocks new-york feelings Almost everything official in America is a huge fraud. James Purdy fraud huge america As always, I wonder if I'll get through the winter. Then when winter is over, I wonder about the summer. But that's because the system decided which author shall be commercially successful. As I said, the most vicious of them all is The New York Times, because it pretends to be literary and impartial, and it's really this opinionated, myopic, stupid giant of incompetence. James Purdy stupid new-york summer None of my books are best-sellers. In fact, the only thing that's kept me alive is the books that are in paperback. People find them, they like them, and they pass them on. James Purdy alive book people
