"Contrary to all those times you've heard a……" — Paul Harding
"Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth."
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15 Quotes by Paul Harding
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I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it.
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What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many…
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There is my father whispering in my ear, Be still still still. And yet you change everything. What was the…
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Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it…
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I was ravenous for my child and took to gorging myself in the boneyard, hoping that she might possibly meet…
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I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author.
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I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the crucial time…
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Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact.
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If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.
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He smelled cold water and cold intrepid green. Those early flowers smelled like cold water. Their fragrance was not the…
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Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? . . . It was Jesus.…
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When his grandchildren had been little, they had asked if they could hide inside the clock. Now he wanted to…
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