Ron Rash Quotes

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• I don't even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning…
• A small profit it better than a big loss
• One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children
• A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world
• I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for Serena.
• Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing, poignancy, humor, wisdom-all…
• Peter Geye has rendered the Minnesota north shore in all its stark, dangerous beauty, and it is the perfect backdrop for this deeply moving story…
• John Lane has long been recognized as one of the South's finest poets and memoirists. This debut establishes him as one of our finest novelists…
• Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan,…
• As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.
• Cool-Hand Luke' is one of my favorite movies.
• Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.
• I wouldn't mind being a track and field coach.
• One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.
• Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go there. An 'idea,'…
• I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long…
• I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing…
• I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more…
• I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to…
• I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then…

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