Daniel Keyes Quotes


I'm not close to him." He looked at me defiantly. "But he's put his whole life into this. He's no Freud or Jung or Pavlov or Watson, but he's doing something important and I respect his dedication - maybe even more because he's just an ordinary man trying to do a great man's work, while the great men are all busy making bombs.


Citations

Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966.

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Daniel Keyes
Daniel Keyes
  • Born: August 9, 1927
  • Died: June 15, 2014
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Fiction Writer

Daniel Keyes was an American writer who wrote the novel Flowers for Algernon. Keyes was given the Author Emeritus honor by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000.