Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? . . . It was Jesus. . .… — Paul Harding Bottom 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
“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
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
“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 joy of those years had its own integrity, and Kate existed within that. She could not be touched by the misery… — Paul Harding 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
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 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
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
“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
“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 Tinkers 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
“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 breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it. — Paul Harding Book Copy Share Image
“. . . . the materials for the nest must be collected and woven strand by strand . . . . Such… — Paul Harding Productivity 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 Great grandchildren 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
“On the seventh day, Howard turned off the trail and sat by the river and smoked a pipeful of tobacco that he… — Paul Harding 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
“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
“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
“When it came time to die, we knew and went to deep yards where we lay down and our bones turned to… — Paul Harding Time Copy Share Image
