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I've always figured the only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer and longer until something happens – you know… - Nelson Algren
" "I've always figured the only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer and longer until something happens – you know, until it finds its own plot – because you can't outline and then fit the thing into it. I suppose it's a slow way of working.
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About Nelson Algren
(March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981) was an American writer. Best known for two of his novels, The Man with the Golden Arm (1949, , adapted into ) and A Walk on the Wild Side (1956, adapted into ), Algren also wrote short stories collected in The Neon Wilderness (1947), and the book-length essays Chicago: City on the Make (1951) and Nonconformity (1953/1996).
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I don't know many writers. [...] Well, I dunno, but I do have the feeling that other writers can't help you with writing. I've gone to writers' conferences and writers' sessions and writers' clinics, and the more I see of them, the more I'm sure it's the wrong direction. It isn't the place where you learn to write. I've always felt strongly that a writer shouldn't be engaged with other writers, or with people who make books, or even with people who read them. I think the farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources. I mean, a writer doesn't really live, he observes.
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