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Stanley Elkin quotes: Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is a sort of spontaneous combustionthe oily rags of the head and heart.

Like a lot of what happens in novels, inspiration is
a sort of spontaneous combustion
the oily rags of the head and heart.

Stanley Elkin quotes: It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads.

It's fine, precise, detailed work, the infinitely small motor management of diamond cutters and safecrackers that we do in our heads.

Stanley Elkin quotes: I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.

I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.

Stanley Elkin quotes: Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose.

Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose.

Stanley Elkin quotes: I do not do schtick. What I do are organized routines and connected schtick - schtick upon schtick upon schtick until we have a piece of carpentry

I do not do schtick. What I do are organized routines and connected schtick - schtick upon schtick upon schtick until we have a piece of carpentry

Stanley Elkin quotes: The living and dead were thrown together, and the dead looked away first.-Description of Doomsday

The living and dead were thrown together, and the dead looked away first.

-Description of Doomsday

Stanley Elkin quotes: I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.

I've always been terrified of dying, always. It was a concern of mine long before it had to be.

Stanley Elkin quotes: I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope.

I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope.

Stanley Elkin quotes: What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood.

What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood.

Stanley Elkin quotes: The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays

The peculiar dignity of men seen eating alone in restaurants on national holidays

Stanley Elkin quotes: Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf.

Plot is to literature what individual holes are to miniature golf.

Stanley Elkin quotes: Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism.

Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism.

Stanley Elkin quotes: Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does.

Life's tallest order is to keep the feelings up, to make two dollars' worth of euphoria go the distance. And life can't do that. So fiction does.

Stanley Elkin quotes: I look eight years older than everybody.

I look eight years older than everybody.

Stanley Elkin quotes: But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater.

But it's hard to talk about art. Maybe there should be a law against it, some First Amendment gag order like crying fire in a crowded theater.

Stanley Elkin quotes: The furthest out is the only place to be.

The furthest out is the only place to be.