Skip to content

A man who won't demean himself for a dollar is a phoney to my way of thinking.

— Nelson Algren

Another quote →

More quotes by Nelson Algren

What country is there for a white man who isn't white?

The clock in the room above the Safari told only Junkie Time.

The Man with the Golden Arm (1949)

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

I am the penny whistle of American literature.

Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never play cards with a man named Doc. And never lay down with a woman who's got more troubles than you.

All Nelson Algren quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Nelson Algren (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.