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Top 25 Harry Crews Quotes (2025 Update)

Harry Crews Quote: “There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”

1. “There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”

— Harry Crews

Harry Crews Quote: “Survival is triumph enough.”

2. “Survival is triumph enough.”

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Harry Crews Quote: “If you’re gonna write, for God in heaven’s sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to get underneath all the sham, all the excuses, all the lies that you’ve been told.”

3. “If you’re gonna write, for God in heaven’s sake, try to get naked. Try to write the truth. Try to get underneath all the sham, all the excuses, all the lies that you’ve been told.”

— Harry Crews

Harry Crews Quote: “I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.”

4. “I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.”

— Harry Crews

Harry Crews Quote: “Blood is our only permanent history, and blood history does not admit of revision.”

5. “Blood is our only permanent history, and blood history does not admit of revision.”

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Harry Crews Quote: “There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.”

6. “There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.”

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Harry Crews Quote: “Men to whom God is dead worship one another.”

7. “Men to whom God is dead worship one another.”

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Harry Crews Quote: “God love the car. It has shown the naked heart that lives in all of us. Man invented the car but the car – out of pure malevolence no doubt – changed the history of the world by reinventing man.”

8. “God love the car. It has shown the naked heart that lives in all of us. Man invented the car but the car – out of pure malevolence no doubt – changed the history of the world by reinventing man.”

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Harry Crews Quote: “I’ve never enjoyed myself. I’m incapable of enjoying myself. There’s just some people who don’t enjoy themselves very much.”

9. “I’ve never enjoyed myself. I’m incapable of enjoying myself. There’s just some people who don’t enjoy themselves very much.”

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Harry Crews Quote: “Writing a book is like torture that you don’t know, but after it’s done and there it is. It’s a joy like unlike anything else, I think it’s the closest that a man can come to knowing what is feels like to have a baby.”

10. “Writing a book is like torture that you don’t know, but after it’s done and there it is. It’s a joy like unlike anything else, I think it’s the closest that a man can come to knowing what is feels like to have a baby.”

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Harry Crews Quote: “That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.”

11. “That was the only decision there was once upon a time: what to do with the night.”

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Harry Crews Quote: “Teaching, real teaching, is – or ought to be – a messy business.”

12. “Teaching, real teaching, is – or ought to be – a messy business.”

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Harry Crews Quote: “The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.”

13. “The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.”

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Harry Crews Quote: “Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn’t trust a man who could git through it cold sober.”

14. “Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn’t trust a man who could git through it cold sober.”

— Harry Crews

Harry Crews Quote: “The writer’s job is to get naked...”

15. “The writer’s job is to get naked...”

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Harry Crews Quote: “He knew and accepted for the first time that things would not be different tomorrow. Or ever. Things got different for some people. But for some they did not. There were a lot of things you could do though. One of them was to go nuts trying to pretend things would someday be different.”

16. “He knew and accepted for the first time that things would not be different tomorrow. Or ever. Things got different for some people. But for some they did not. There were a lot of things you could do though. One of them was to go nuts trying to pretend things would someday be different.”

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Harry Crews Quote: “I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.”

17. “I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction.”

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Harry Crews Quote: “What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.”

18. “What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.”

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Harry Crews Quote: “He had one of those good country voices: part drunk, part hound dog, part angel.”

19. “He had one of those good country voices: part drunk, part hound dog, part angel.”

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Harry Crews Quote: “The writers job is to get naked, To hide nothing. To look away from nothing. To look at it. To not blink. To be not embarrassed or shamed of it. Strip it down and lets get down to where the blood is, the bone is. Instead of hiding it with clothes and all kinds of other stuff, luxury!”

20. “The writers job is to get naked, To hide nothing. To look away from nothing. To look at it. To not blink. To be not embarrassed or shamed of it. Strip it down and lets get down to where the blood is, the bone is. Instead of hiding it with clothes and all kinds of other stuff, luxury!”

— Harry Crews

Harry Crews Quote: “Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, ‘Hey, man, the ball game’s up’.”

21. “Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, ‘Hey, man, the ball game’s up’.”

— Harry Crews

Harry Crews Quote: “If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands of books you should have already read – if you wait for the time, you will never do it. ‘Cause there ain’t no time; world don’t want you to do that. World wants you to go to the zoo and eat cotton candy, preferably seven days a week.”

22. “If you wait until you got time to write a novel, or time to write a story, or time to read the hundred thousands of books you should have already read – if you wait for the time, you will never do it. ‘Cause there ain’t no time; world don’t want you to do that. World wants you to go to the zoo and eat cotton candy, preferably seven days a week.”

— Harry Crews

Harry Crews Quote: “It was not any one thing that scared him. It was everything. It was his life. His life terrified him. He didn’t see how he was going to get through the rest of it.”

23. “It was not any one thing that scared him. It was everything. It was his life. His life terrified him. He didn’t see how he was going to get through the rest of it.”

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Harry Crews Quote: “If you’re a person of feeling, if you feel things keenly and deeply – and I don’t think you can be a writer unless you feel things not just for the moment but they live in you – that costs you. I don’t think you can be a writer of consequence and merit unless you have grave doubts about yourself, about what you’ve done and who you are and whom you’ve hurt. And that costs you. And so, it all costs you. What is left is what all of us are going to get, a chance to know what it’s like to die.”

24. “If you’re a person of feeling, if you feel things keenly and deeply – and I don’t think you can be a writer unless you feel things not just for the moment but they live in you – that costs you. I don’t think you can be a writer of consequence and merit unless you have grave doubts about yourself, about what you’ve done and who you are and whom you’ve hurt. And that costs you. And so, it all costs you. What is left is what all of us are going to get, a chance to know what it’s like to die.”

— Harry Crews

Harry Crews Quote: “Nothing is allowed to die in a society of storytelling people. It is all-the good and the bad-carted up and brought along from one generation to the next. And everything that is brought along is colored and shaped by those who bring it.”

25. “Nothing is allowed to die in a society of storytelling people. It is all-the good and the bad-carted up and brought along from one generation to the next. And everything that is brought along is colored and shaped by those who bring it.”

— Harry Crews

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