Writer Quotes by Kent Haruf

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

“quit trying to fix things and we settled into our long polite and quiet life.”

— Kent Haruf

“You understand? If you can read you can cook. You can always feed yourselves. You remember that.”

— Kent Haruf

“The precious ordinary. I”

— Kent Haruf

I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit…

— Kent Haruf

We'd do better to follow the admonition of Jesus about loving our neighbours. People in the U.S. are capable of forgiveness and willing to…

— Kent Haruf

Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they were the Waltons or the…

— Kent Haruf

My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated.

— Kent Haruf

“Alene looked out toward the fading sky. There was only a little light remaining. It would turn nighttime now and soon they would return…

— Kent Haruf

“And so we know the satisfaction of hate. We know the sweet joy of revenge. How it feels good to get even. Oh, that…

— Kent Haruf

In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.

— Kent Haruf

That was on a night in August. Dad Lewis died early that morning and the young girl Alice from next door got lost in…

— Kent Haruf

“The evening wasn’t cold yet... But the air was turning sharp, with a fall feeling of loneliness coming. Something unaccountable pending in the air.”

— Kent Haruf

After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework that first…

— Kent Haruf

I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I…

— Kent Haruf