Ron Carlson Quotes
- The big secret is the ability to stay in the room.
- I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.
- It is philosophically impossible to be an atheist, since to be an atheist you must have infinite knowledge in order to know absolutely that there…
- The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.
- Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.
- In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a…
- The writer is the person who stays in the room.
- It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince was a nursery…
- Get down, get naked, get savage.
- Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.
- The men and women, the weapons, the deerhunt all make a huge and fragile danger in John Bolger's novel The Hunters. There is care and…