An extraordinary writer....It is the vastness of Nick Tosches’ heart that makes it possible to reveal the darkness.
Hubert Selby, Jr.If love is what I've experienced, I can't separate it from other people. I can't separate creation, and I can't separate whatever this creative thing is, from it's creation. I don't believe that can be done. We're all part of this creative force.
Hubert Selby, Jr.I'm focusing on writing the best story I can write. Which means I'm doing everything I can to give the artist within me as much power as possible.
Hubert Selby, Jr.One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.
Hubert Selby, Jr.I think in a way the great irony or paradox about America is that it makes it so hard for the sensitive person, the artist, the impressionable person, the person whose raison d'etre is to incarnate the creative will, rather than to just make money, and yet that extreme difficulty that the culture poses for us has created some of the best artists in the last hundred years.
Hubert Selby, Jr.