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Top 8 Stanley Elkin Quotes in 2020

By: Quotes Guru | Last Updated: June 18, 2020

“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

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

― Stanley Elkin

“When I was growing up, we had a bungalow in New Jersey which we visited in the summers. Everybody in that small community was named Feldman and was either an aunt or cousin of mine. I just found it comfortable to use the name Feldman.”

― Stanley Elkin

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

― Stanley Elkin

“I don’t read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly written. What I enjoy about fiction – the great gift of fiction – is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.”

― Stanley Elkin

“I look eight years older than everybody.”

― Stanley Elkin

“The fact that we die is one of the more interesting things that happen to us. Fiction ought to be about bottom lines, and that’s as bottom-line as you can get.”

― Stanley Elkin

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

― Stanley Elkin

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