All Ron Rash Quotes
- I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I… Always Believe
- On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this… Began
- Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the ability… Ability
- Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler… Character
- What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I… Able
- The woman doesn't look up. It's as if she's deaf. Maybe she is. Maybe she's like the Cambodian women I've read about, the ones who… Atrocities
- She realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left a hollow place inside you, a place… Another Day
- It’s ever been the way of the man of science or philosophy. Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.  Been
- It struck her how eating was a comfort during a hard time because it reminded you that there had been other days, good days, when… Been
- But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You… Book
- It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start Baby
- What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything… Alive
- Don't love anything that can be taken away. Funny
- You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick. Beginning
- Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better Better