Accurate Quote by Donald Ray Pollock

I started going to Ohio University when I was in my mid-thirties, ended up with an English degree when I was forty.

— Donald Ray Pollock

I spent thirty-two years in a paper mill in southern Ohio, and before that, I worked in a meatpacking plant and a shoe factory.

— Donald Ray Pollock

I took a correspondence course with a guy at Ohio University. He gave me ten exercises, and one of them resulted in the story…

— Donald Ray Pollock

'Knockemstiff' is a collection of short stories set in the holler of the same name in southern Ohio where I grew up. I tried…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I remember a class I taught at Ohio State where I assigned a Mary Gaitskill story, which really wasn't that bad, and I had…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I was 35 when I started taking classes at Ohio University. After I got my degree, I kept working at the mill. When I…

— Donald Ray Pollock

“Those mornings were fragile things — like flowers blooming in the middle of a battlefield. She hadn’t realized then that the soil beneath them…

— Maggie Sn

“Cavernous windows opened in a silent scream on the face of the Gothic house that tilted on the crest of Foster Hill. Its gables…

— Jaime Jo Wright

As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“And when she had spoken such a rhapsody, she would press me more closely in her trembling embrace, and her lips in soft kisses…

— Sheridan Le Fanu

There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured…

— Oscar Wilde

“In starlit nights I saw you, So cruelly you kissed me. Your lips a magic world, Your sky all hung with jewels. The killing…

— Echo and the Bunnymen