Gerald Clarke Quotes & Sayings

I can tell you, from a fund of experience, that one can be taken down from the rack, closer to death than to life - and then still have the most exquisite joys ahead of one. — Gerald Clarke

He was opposed to capital punishment - "institutionalized sadism," he termed it - and in favor of prison reforms that would emphasize rehabilitation. His opinions were generally conservative, however, and he did not subscribe to the fashionable view of the sixties that criminals were victims of society. — Gerald Clarke

Poverty is much more than a way of life," Jack later wrote. "It goes much farther than skin-deep. It's no tattoo that fades with time. Nor a brand that can be put out of mind except when faced. Poverty, if you've known it, is you. — Gerald Clarke

Before Truman Capote, journalism and non-fiction weren't taken very seriously. — Gerald Clarke

In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels. — Gerald Clarke

People simply will not accept the fact that there is such a thing as a homicidal mind," he told the Senators, "that there are people who would kill as easily as they would write a bad check, and that they achieve satisfaction from it as I might from completing a novel or you from seeing a proposal of yours become law." A — Gerald Clarke

In those days people moved more slowly down there, and Arch, who did just opposite, might almost have been taken for a Yankee. — Gerald Clarke

His theory was that non-fiction could be as artful as fiction. — Gerald Clarke

I don't think Capote loved Smith. But he did make a deep connection. It upset some people, because that had never been the approach to journalistic crime writing, to look into the mind of the killer. — Gerald Clarke

It's a distillation of all I know about writing: short-story writing, screenwriting, journalism - everything. There is no future in the novel, so far as I can see. I'm trying to show where writing is going to be. I may not get there, but I will point the way." In — Gerald Clarke

you understand much more about the value of a marriage when you've lost it, — Gerald Clarke