Curt, my husband, is a writer, and he’ll never write....

“ Curt, my husband, is a writer, and he’ll never write again. That’s our funeral, as they say down south. Now in your case, my pet, you’re married to a phenomenon of our own special epoch, a man who couldn’t in a thousand years be a writer in the only meaning of the term, but who can and probably will write a book. ”

James Purdy

From : Cabot Wright Begins