A writer who knows what he is doing isn't doing very much. - Nelson Algren

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A writer who knows what he is doing isn't doing very much.

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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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Alternative Names: Nelson Ahlgren Abraham
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Thinking of Melville, thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there is almost no way of becoming a creative writer in America without being a loser.
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