“It is not my job to explain the story or understand the story or reduce it to a phrase or offer it as being a story about any specific person, place, or thing. My job is to have been true… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
It is philosophically impossible to be an atheist, since to be an atheist you must have infinite knowledge in order to know absolutely that… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon. — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
“I tell students, when in doubt, to title their story after the smallest concrete object in their story. I warn them off plays on… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
The men and women, the weapons, the deerhunt all make a huge and fragile danger in John Bolger's novel The Hunters. There is care… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
“I always write from my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.” — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
“I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
“The most important thing a writer can do after completing a sentence is to stay in the room. The great temptation is to leave… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
