Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact. — Paul Harding Enough Copy Share Image
I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author. — Paul Harding Books Copy Share Image
I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it. — Paul Harding Book Copy Share Image
If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game. — Paul Harding Games Copy Share Image
“The house had not merely lapsed back into the equilibrium of the woods but was blighted, as if inside it did not… — Paul Harding Nature Copy Share Image
“My father would say, The forgotten songs we never really knew, only think we remember knowing, when what we really do is… — Paul Harding Forgotten Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, Howard thought, the curtains and murals and pastel angels are a mercy, a dim reflection of things fit for the fragility… — Paul Harding Angels Copy Share Image
But a huge part of being a writer is discovering your own intellectual and aesthetic autonomy, and how you best get the… — Paul Harding Style Copy Share Image
“. . . . the materials for the nest must be collected and woven strand by strand . . . . Such… — Paul Harding Bird Copy Share Image
“Everything is made to perish; the wonder of anything at all is that it has not already done so. No, he thought.… — Paul Harding First place Copy Share Image
“I woke up every morning on the couch. It felt like the same morning all the time, or like an infinite series… — Paul Harding Dream Copy Share Image
What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equal to so many… — Paul Harding Awful Copy Share Image
“I had a deep and abiding love for the idea that this life is not something that we are forced to endure… — Paul Harding Gratitude Copy Share Image
“be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still… — Paul Harding Beauty of the world Copy Share Image
“My mind blazed with ravishing lies. I thought, I cannot accept this gift of myself, myself as a gift, of my person,… — Paul Harding Lies Copy Share Image
“I just wish that you had made it beyond the bounds of this cold little radius, that when the archaeologists brush off… — Paul Harding Archaeologists Copy Share Image
“I was just thinking that I am not very many years old, but that I am a century wide. I think I… — Paul Harding Paul-harding Copy Share Image
Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? . . . It was Jesus. . .… — Paul Harding Bottom Copy Share Image
“Howard thought, Is it not true: A move of the head, a step to the left or right, and we change from… — Paul Harding Change Copy Share Image
“...I will be no more than a tint of some obscure color, and to their great grandchildren nothing they ever know about,… — Paul Harding Ghosts Copy Share Image
“Your cold mornings are filled with the heartache about the fact that although we are not at ease in this world, it… — Paul Harding Beauty of the world Copy Share Image
“Howard resented the ache in his heart. He resented that it was there every morning when he woke up... He resented equally… — Paul Harding Anger Copy Share Image
“My goodness, I am made from planets and wood, diamonds and orange peels, now and then, here and there; the iron in… — Paul Harding Northern star Copy Share Image
“Howard thought, Is it not true: A move of the head, a step to the left or right, and we change from… — Paul Harding Tinkers Copy Share Image
“Don’t write your books for people who won’t like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write… — Paul Harding Books Copy Share Image
“There was a moment of sorrow, disappointment, and deep love for his son, whom he at that second wished had had a… — Paul Harding Deep love Copy Share Image
“But it's a curse, a condemnation, like an act of provocation, to have been aroused from not being, to have been conjured… — Paul Harding Antinatalism Copy Share Image
“No one could imagine how a man could survive one winter alone and exposed in the woods, never mind decades of them.… — Paul Harding Blank space Copy Share Image
“The joy of those years had its own integrity, and Kate existed within that. She could not be touched by the misery… — Paul Harding Existed Copy Share Image
“And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion… — Paul Harding Beauty of the world Copy Share Image
“On the seventh day, Howard turned off the trail and sat by the river and smoked a pipeful of tobacco that he… — Paul Harding Flies Kept Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, Howard thought, the curtains and murals and pastel angels are a mercy, a dim reflection of things fit for the fragility… — Paul Harding Angel Copy Share Image
“Howard thought, Is it not true: A move of the head, a step to the left or right, and we change from… — Paul Harding Loyal People Copy Share Image
The silver lining of those years when I was trying to get 'Tinkers' published but couldn't were the years when I had… — Paul Harding Art Copy Share Image
The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the protagonist from one novel you've read… — Paul Harding Another Copy Share Image
“Your cold mornings are filled with the heartache about the fact that although we are not at ease in this world, it… — Paul Harding Cold morning Copy Share Image
“When it came time to die, we knew and went to deep yards where we lay down and our bones turned to… — Paul Harding Death Copy Share Image
There is my father whispering in my ear, Be still still still. And yet you change everything. What was the marsh like,… — Paul Harding Backsides Copy Share Image
Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human… — Paul Harding About Copy Share Image
Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological… — Paul Harding Contrary Copy Share Image
