Taught Quote by Ron Rash Download Open image “Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.” — Ron Rash ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Taught Writing
Faulkner is a really important figure in southern literature. I wrestle with him and his legacy every time I sit down and write a… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it.… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
I was writing novels in high school and apprenticed myself in a way both to Faulkner and to Hemingway. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
When we have a favorite writer, it's always the places where they grew up, lived, worked, and that they recreated on the page that… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Faulkner was the first novelist I read with pen and paper in hand because his technique stunned me. — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
The first five years as a writer, I didn't know how to write at all. I couldn't write my way out of a white… — Richard Meltzer Copy Share Image
I wrote a paper [in school] on [William] Faulkner and no one could tell what the sentences meant. — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks on a… — David Milch Copy Share Image
Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer.… — James Welch Copy Share Image
Writing a book set in New Mexico was partially a way to express my own love for the state, and partially a way to… — Liza Campbell Copy Share Image
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… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“Maybe calling it being hitched ain’t the prettiest way to say you’re married, but it’s the truth to my mind and true in a… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“Dead and still in the world was worse than dead and in the ground. Dead in the ground at least gave you the hope… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“The song was wistful as the ballads Slidell and the Clayton brothers played, except words weren't needed to feel the yearning. That made the… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“What does eminent domain mean?” Stewart asked. “It means you’re shit out of luck,” Ross said.” — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral complexity. .… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“The lift of her heart she'd felt on the outcrop she now felt again, and it wasn't just love. She'd felt love before, known… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“Rachel kneeled beside Jacob. She took the child's hand and pressed it to the dirt. Her father had told Rachel that Harmons had been… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The writings of latter-day prophets clearly teach that the sorrows and sufferings endured by Adam and Eve upon their leaving the Garden of Eden were ordained by God and were a necessary part of their-and our-earthly experience. President Howard W. Hunter, then a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, taught: "We came to mortal life to encounter resistance.… — Daniel K Judd Copy Share
Troy was a sweet, good man. We just were never destined to be married. We just didn't have the same values. But I'm not… — Suzanne Pleshette Copy Share Image
One thing the young Christian should be taught as quickly as possible after his conversion is that Jesus Christ is all he needs. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows. — Al Unser Copy Share Image
Jesus taught that the mark of the Christian is the observable love shown among all true believers. — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. — Anonymous Copy Share
To really be of benefit to others as the Buddha always taught, we ourselves must first get out of the swamp. One of the… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Of all the forms of exercise I've taught, Pilates is one of my favorites. — Denise Austin Copy Share Image
For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
There must be a technique for meeting pain. There must be a technique of endurance based on the power of the soul to maintain… — Ray Stannard Baker Copy Share Image