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Get down, get naked, get savage.
Ron Carlson / Novelist
Naked
Savages
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The writer is the person who stays in the room.
Ron Carlson / Novelist
Persons
Rooms
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The big secret is the ability to stay in the room.
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Crafts
Rooms
Secret
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I have these habits. I'm not a crazy artist. Or am I?
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Habits
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I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life.
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Life My Life Live
Amplified
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Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.
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Experience
Aggregate
Surprises
Continually
Which
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I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.
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My Own
Writing
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Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.
Ron Carlson / Novelist
Keys
Long
Moon
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I'm not at all sure dialogue is meant to advance the story; I know that sometimes it is the story.
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Dialogue
Advance
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Our pasts so many times determine the value of what is happening today. Everybody is midway in their story.
Ron Carlson / Novelist
Determine
Midway
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No one among us suffers the radical appreciation for coffee that I do. It calls to me, but I have learned not to listen.
Ron Carlson / Novelist
Appreciation
Coffee
Calls
Suffers
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Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.
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Idolatry
Miscellaneous
Stones
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My parents were farmers' kids from South Dakota. My dad was an engineer. I wanted to be responsible and major in something pragmatic.
Ron Carlson / Novelist
Dakota
Farmers
Pragmatic
South Dakota
Engineer
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The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.
Ron Carlson / Novelist
Heart
Stories
Tolerance
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In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!
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Frogs
School
Taught
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I was writing a third novel when my kids arrived. And I looked at that book about whether these two people would get together, and I thought, 'I don't care! I've got kids!'
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Get Together
Two People
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My first novel was called 'Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald,' about the difficulties of graduating from college, the longing and mourning you feel when all your promise seems to float away.
Ron Carlson / Novelist
Betrayed
College
Longing
Mourning
Novel
Promise
Seems
Difficulties
Fitzgerald
Graduating
Scott
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The men and women, the weapons, the deerhunt all make a huge and fragile danger in John Bolger's novel The Hunters. There is care and harm in this book and all written with felicitous and steady grace.
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Men
Book
Grace
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If we're really writing, we are exploring the unnamed emotional facets of the human heart. Not all emotions, not all states of mind have been named. Nor are all the names we have been given always accurate.
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Accurate
Exploring
Facets
Human Heart
Always Heart Mind
Named
Heart Always Mind
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I don't write for theme, but if you work closely on some guy fixing a sandwich or a window or a table or trying to visit an old teacher or walking down the street on which he was a boy, a theme, a human hope, will emerge.
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Fixing
Window
Closely
Emerge
Sandwich
Visit
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It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince was a nursery fairy tale, but when we got to college they told us that a frog turning into a prince was science.
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College
Frogs
Taught Us
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I believe in teaching as a real job. I don't think it's a substitute for anything else. It's been shown to me that teachers can help, and the writing today is just as good as it was when I started out. Technology hasn't changed that.
Ron Carlson / Novelist
Teachers
Anything Else
Substitute
Real Job
Shown
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Writing a book is very personal. It's a very personal relationship. A book will start with something as simple as two men talking about work. That gets the fire going. Sustaining that fire is the hard work. It takes attention and empathy to hone the characters.
Ron Carlson / Novelist
Attention
Fire
Hard Work
Sustaining
Characters
Hone
Personal Relationship
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I love whimsy. My mother was a word person, a real quipster. She was famous in the 1950s for being a contester in Utah: 25 words or less. My bicycle, our hi-fi... in 1959, she won $15,000 from Remington-Rand for writing about a shaver. She was a farm girl from South Dakota.
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Famous
Bicycle
Dakota
South Dakota
Utah
Won
Farm
Hi-Fi
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It is philosophically impossible to be an atheist, since to be an atheist you must have infinite knowledge in order to know absolutely that there is no God. But to have infinite knowledge, you would have to be God yourself. It's hard to be God yourself and an atheist at the same time!
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Atheist
Impossible
Order
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The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live. No good guys, no bad guys, just guys: that is, people bearing up in the crucible of their days and certainly not always - if ever - capable of articulating their condition.
Ron Carlson / Novelist
Ambiguity
Articulating
Bad Guys
Capable
Complicated
Crucible
Deals
Human Heart
Tolerance
Good Always Heart
Condition
Bearing
Good Heart Always
Good Heart Bad
Literary
Good Guys
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I was a good college kid, all-American and baseball-playing, living in the dorms with a million barbarians. I did not expect to be claimed by Fitzgerald hook, line, and sinker. 'This Side of Paradise' - that sweet, sophomoric pastiche of notes, scenes, poetry, and plays - I felt like he'd written the book just for me.
Ron Carlson / Novelist
Barbarians
Hook
Notes
All-American
Claimed
Fitzgerald
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