Kent Haruf Quotes
- This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and…
- After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework that first draft…
- Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over…
- A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me can't even imagine.…
- It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.
- That was on a night in August. Dad Lewis died early that morning and the young girl Alice from next door got lost in the…
- You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence.
- Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.
- He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were sufficient to the…
- I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.
- Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are not conditions exclusive…
- Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing…
- In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.