Quotes by Ron Rash - Page 1

A small profit is better than a big loss.
Ron Rash / Poet
Business
Choices
Loss
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Don't love anything that can be taken away.
Ron Rash / Poet
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Cool-Hand Luke' is one of my favorite movies.
Ron Rash / Poet
Hands
Luke
My Favorite
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'Cool-Hand Luke' is one of my favorite movies.
Ron Rash / Poet
Luke
Favorite Movies
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I wouldn't mind being a track and field coach.
Ron Rash / Poet
Fields
Mind
Track
Track And Field
Coach
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I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for Serena.
Ron Rash / Poet
Eagles
Hunts
Rattlesnakes
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I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for 'Serena.'
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Eagle
Hunt
Learnt
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As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.
Ron Rash / Poet
Begins
Shakespeare
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Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.
Ron Rash / Poet
Regions
Taught
Writing
Faulkner
Region
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One thing's sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children
Ron Rash / Poet
Children
Poor
Rich
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A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world
Ron Rash / Poet
Happened
Terrible
World
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Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better
Ron Rash / Poet
Vulnerability
Vulnerable
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You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, things got narrow real quick.
Ron Rash / Poet
Choices
Ifs
Real
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It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start
Ron Rash / Poet
Baby
Tears
World
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One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.
Ron Rash / Poet
Character
Goal
World
Allow
Inhabit
Readers
Vividly
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We had some good times at school. I didn't know how good those times were until I left, but I guess that's the way of it
Ron Rash / Poet
Good Times
School
Way
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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.” – Snipes (185)
Ron Rash / Poet
Men
Dark
Philosophy
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I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.
Ron Rash / Poet
Carolina
Landscape
Long
Long Time
North Carolina
Teach
University
Western
Time Family Where
Family Time Long
North
Region
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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 only have to know the history of your own life.
Ron Rash / Poet
Book
Foundation
Needs
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I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.
Ron Rash / Poet
Vacation
Another Time
Character
Sensibility
Thinking
Writing
Love Time Character
Enter
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I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.
Ron Rash / Poet
Long
Thinking
Writing
How Far
Mule
Poem
Row
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Peter Geye has rendered the Minnesota north shore in all its stark, dangerous beauty, and it is the perfect backdrop for this deeply moving story of conflict and forgiveness. Safe from the Sea is a remarkable debut.
Ron Rash / Poet
Moving
Perfect
Sea
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I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.
Ron Rash / Poet
Diaries
Different
Relevant
Slang
Writing
Browse
Dialects
Histories
Oral
Regional
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Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable - say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls - I wouldn't go there. An 'idea,' especially one adhered to from start to finish, can be disastrous for a compelling piece of fiction.
Ron Rash / Poet
Caves
Compelling
Ideas
Sea
Secluded
Cave
Disastrous
Finish
Furthermore
Piece
Stacked
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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 you’d eaten the same thing. Reminded you there were good days in life, when precious little else did. (268)
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Comfort
Good Day
Hard Times
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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 almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.
Ron Rash / Poet
Convinced
Eye
Hate
Pencils
Writing
Writer
Almost
Anything Else
Days
Eyes
Wait
Punish
Stick
Sit
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I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, 'cause it was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book had entered me.
Ron Rash / Poet
Book
Crime
Punishment
Thinking
Years
Time Moment Me
Entered
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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 in 'The Trusty' was going for water, I did not know that he would meet a fetching young farm wife until I got him into her front yard.
Ron Rash / Poet
Character
Instance
Moving
Moving Away
Water
Farm
Wait
Trusty
Yard
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Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan, Mary Costello has created one of the most fully realized characters in contemporary fiction. What a marvel of a book.
Ron Rash / Poet
Book
Heart
Moving
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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 spend a lot of time on the story's larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.
Ron Rash / Poet
Decision
Dialogue
Dozen
Length
Paragraph
Placement
Stories
Decisions
Believed
Closer
Drafts
Spend
Larger
Least
Novels
Poems
Rhythms
Sentence
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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 to say something as vividly as possible - but also the ability to create a narrative that, though lacking a novel's length, satisfies the reader.
Ron Rash / Poet
Ability
Fiction
I've Learned
Lacking
Length
Narrative
Novel
Reader
Bring
Possible
Create
Short
Learned
Medium
Requires
Satisfies
Though
Vividly
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Steve Yarbrough is a writer of many gifts, but what makes Safe from the Neighbors such a magnificent achievement is its moral complexity. . . . Safe from the Neighbors does what only the best novels can do; after reading it, we can never see the world, or ourselves, in quite the same way.
Ron Rash / Poet
Achievement
Doe
Reading
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Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing, poignancy, humor, wisdom-all are in abundance here. Jill McCorkle is one of the South's greatest writers; she is also one of America's.
Ron Rash / Poet
Character
Philosophical
Writing
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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 you needed filled to make it through another day. Rachel remembered how growing up she’d thought living on a farm with just a father was as lonely as you could be. (130)
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Father
Growing Up
Lonely
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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 stage I'm often surprised. A different ending or a new character shows up and I'm back to where I began, letting the story happen, just trying to stay out of the way.
Ron Rash / Poet
Character
Focus
Including
Stage
Stressed
Syllables
Trying
Vowels
Began
Drafts
Ending
Letting
Rub
Surprised
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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 witnessed so many atrocities that they have willed themselves blind. Maybe that's what you have to do sometimes to survive. You kill off part of yourself, your hearing or eyesight, your capacity for hope.
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Atrocities
Hearing
Looks
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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 novelists as well. His poet's eye for detail seamlessly merges with a born storyteller's gift for narrative. Fate Moreland's Widow gives voice to those who endured one of the most painful and neglected chapters in American history.
Ron Rash / Poet
Eye
Fate
Voice
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I don't even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, and she hadn't, things got narrow real quick. Like trying to wade a river, she thought. You take a wrong step and set your foot on a wobbly rock or in a drop-off and you're swept away, and all you can do then is try to survive.
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Feet
Real
Rivers
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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 you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood.
Ron Rash / Poet
Grief
Losing Someone
Tree
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