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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Kent Haruf

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

— 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…

— 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…

— Kent Haruf

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

— 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…

— Kent Haruf

You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence.

— Kent Haruf

A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me…

— Kent Haruf

“You don't deserve it, he said aloud. Don't ever begin to think that you do.”

— Kent Haruf

“Don’t you have any scars? Inside. Do you? Of course. You don’t act like it. I don’t intend to. It doesn’t do…

— Kent Haruf

Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are…

— Kent Haruf

“Often in the morning they rode out along the tracks on Easter and took their lunch and once rode as far as…

— Kent Haruf

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.

— Kent Haruf

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

— Kent Haruf

I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or…

— Kent Haruf

Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and…

— Kent Haruf