William Kennedy
William Kennedy
Writer and journalist whose novel, Ironweed, won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His other well-known works include The Ink Truck (1969), Legs (1975), Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978), and Roscoe (2002).
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 January 1928
CityAlbany, NY
CountryUnited States of America
William Kennedy quotes about
guilt lose stood
My guilt is all I have left. If I lose it, I have stood for nothing, done nothing, been nothing.
moving-forward moving imagination
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.
hallelujah hoot walks
There's only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot.
empty-rooms self voice
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.
paris issues greek
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.