Harry Crews
Harry Crews was an influential American novelist and essayist, known for his gritty Southern Gothic style. Born in 1935 in Georgia, Crews drew from his hardscrabble upbringing to craft stories filled with eccentric characters and raw, often dark humor. Over his career, he published numerous novels, such as "A Feast of Snakes" and "The Gospel Singer," earning a cult following. Crews also taught creative writing at the University of Florida.
Book summaries for books written by Harry Crews
Quotes
The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell.
A man who won't fight for what he wants deserves what he gets.
Sometimes you got to get knocked down lower than you've ever been to stand up taller than you ever were.
In life, you either sink or swim. There's no treading water.
The trouble with being born is that every day afterward feels like dying a little.
Sometimes the only way to truly understand someone is to fight them.
We're all just prisoners of our own minds, held captive by our own thoughts.
It's not the scars on the outside that hurt the most, but the ones on the inside.
Fear is just a figment of our imagination, but it can consume us if we let it.
Love is a battlefield, and we're all just soldiers fighting for a chance at happiness.
Sometimes the hardest part of moving on is accepting that the past cannot be changed.
We all have our demons, but it's up to us whether we let them control us or not.