Chester Himes quotes

American violence is public life, it's a public way of life, it became a form, a detective story form. So I should think that any number of black writers should go into the detective story form. (Chester Himes)

I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It never occurred to me that I was writing absurdity. Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference.

Chester Himes

I grew to manhood in the Ohio State Penitentiary.

Chester Himes

Chester Himes

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Occupation: American Writer
Born: July 29, 1909
Died: November 12, 1984
Quotes count: 3

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