Quotes by Harry Crews

Harry Crews

Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, ‘Hey, man, the ball game’s up’.

Home

Lying

Party

God love the car. It has shown the naked heart that lives in all of us. Man invented the car but the car — out of pure malevolence no doubt — changed the history of the world by reinventing man.

Car

Heart

Men

Hell came right along with God, hand in hand. The stink of sulfur swirled in the air of the church, fire burned in the aisles, and brimstone rained out of the rafters. From the evangelist’s oven mouth spewed images of a place with pitchforks, and devils, and lakes of fire that burned forever. God had fixed a place like that because he loved us so much.

Air

Fire

Lakes

I am not perfect.” It came out in a rush of breath. “See I thought I was. Thank God I ain’t. See a perfect thing ain’t got a chance. The world kills it, everything perfect. (Listen to him!) Now see a thing that ain’t perfect, it grows like a weed. Yeah, like a weed! A thing that ain’t perfect gets hand clapping, smiles, takes the wire an easy winner. But the world ain’t set up right if you perfect. You lible to run right into a brick wall. Looks like suicide. All the weeds say, looka there, it suicide!

Running

Suicide

Weed

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

Believe

Smart

Writing

I first became fascinated with the Sears catalogue because all the people in its pages were perfect. Nearly everybody I knew had something missing, a finger cut off, a toe split, an ear half-chewed away, an eye clouded with blindness from a glancing fence staple. And if they didn’t have something missing, they were carrying scars from barbed wire, or knives, or fishhooks. But the people in the catalogue had no such hurts. They were not only whole, had all their arms and legs and eyes on their unscarred bodies, but they were also beautiful.

Beautiful

Eye

Hurt

I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.

Creativity

Cutting

Work

I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we’ll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can’t do it-you can’t bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world.

Bullshit

Sports

Thinking

I’ve never enjoyed myself. I’m incapable of enjoying myself. There’s just some people who don’t enjoy themselves very much.

Enjoy

Incapable

People

If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands of books you should have already read – if you wait for the time, you will never do it. ‘Cause there ain’t no time; world don’t want you to do that. World wants you to go to the zoo and eat cotton candy, preferably seven days a week.

Book

Writing

Zoos

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Quotes by Harry Crews

Harry Crews

Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, ‘Hey, man, the ball game’s up’.

God love the car. It has shown the naked heart that lives in all of us. Man invented the car but the car — out of pure malevolence no doubt — changed the history of the world by reinventing man.

I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.

I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.

I’ve never enjoyed myself. I’m incapable of enjoying myself. There’s just some people who don’t enjoy themselves very much.

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