James Purdy, Cabot Wright Begins Quotes

All you need do, Bernie, ”she gulped her toast soaked in coffee, “is present the truth as fiction.

But failure has kept Curt at home like a nice warm dachshund.

If the book’s bad enough, they’ll publish it, and if it’s bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it’ll sell.

And yet Curt’s a real writer too. His machinery is stuck, that’s all.

He’s America in action — opposed to quality.

She was a church open only for him, with services in full operation twenty-four hours a day.