9+ William Kennedy Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best William Kennedy quotes and sayings.

There's only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot. — William Kennedy

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. — William Kennedy

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. — William Kennedy

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. — William Kennedy

Everyone is interesting except the narrator in a first-person story. — William Kennedy

We are only possible as what happened to us yesterday. We all change as well move — William Kennedy

Roscoe was spiritually illegal, a bootlegger of the soul, a mythic creature made of words and wit and wild deeds and boundless memory. — William Kennedy

Anger makes people stupid. — William Kennedy

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it. — William Kennedy