Quotes by : James Purdy

Behind this story so far is another story, as behind the girders of an ancient bridge is the skeleton....

The last human of importance the American people have been able to keep in the working end of their brain....

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

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

My idea of heaven is to be hunting with you in some beautiful park with mountains like here at home but....

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

He’s America in action — opposed to quality.

Curt, my husband, is a writer, and he’ll never write again. That’s our funeral, as they say down....

Nobody can cause another man evil unless the second party involved allows him to.

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