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

#age

Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it. ↗

— William Kennedy

#age

There's only a short walk from the hallelujah to the hoot. ↗

— William Kennedy

#hoot #only #short #walk

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

#cry #ego #empty #literature #music