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Fame isn't healthy for a writer.
Kent Haruf / Novelist
Fame
Healthy
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You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence.
Kent Haruf / Novelist
Believe
Despite
Evidence
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My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated.
Kent Haruf / Novelist
Desire
Peaceful
Quiet
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I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.
Kent Haruf / Novelist
Book
Firsts
Writing
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Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.
Kent Haruf / Novelist
Honey
Maggie
Where You Are
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It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.
Kent Haruf / Novelist
Men
Done
Land
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In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.
Kent Haruf / Novelist
Advanced
Showing
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I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.
Kent Haruf / Novelist
Cute
Tendency
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Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.
Kent Haruf / Novelist
Hardest Thing
Published
The Hardest Thing
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Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they were the Waltons or the Beverly Hillbillies.
Kent Haruf / Novelist
Midwest
Beverly
Rural
Treat
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I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit down to write.
Kent Haruf / Novelist
Bluegrass
Gospel
Classical
Folk
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I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.
Kent Haruf / Novelist
Journal
Hour
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Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are not conditions exclusive to small towns.
Kent Haruf / Novelist
Death
Care
Conditions
Dying
Exclusive
Matter
Towns
Everywhere
Life Death Where
Life Death Live
Necessity
Fact
Small
Small Towns
Taking
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This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the village idiot.
Kent Haruf / Novelist
Country
Crazy
Mean
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He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were sufficient to the moment or that would change a single thing.
Kent Haruf / Novelist
Differences
Language
Thinking
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Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.
Kent Haruf / Novelist
Men
House
Smoking
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A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me can't even imagine. They got ideas in their heads you and me can't even suppose.
Kent Haruf / Novelist
Girl
Different
Ideas
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I wake each day and try to see what I might do that is of some value and joy. It's a strange life. I don't know how long it'll go on. I don't look past tomorrow. Anything beyond tomorrow seems like hearsay. Or fairy tales.
Kent Haruf / Novelist
Joy
Long
Past
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We'd do better to follow the admonition of Jesus about loving our neighbours. People in the U.S. are capable of forgiveness and willing to see one another's point of view, but when matters become politicised, we're less able to do that.
Kent Haruf / Novelist
Forgiveness
Capable
Point Of View
Better View People
Neighbours
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I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees, overnight storms, timeless elements which, irrespective of human endeavour, have always been there and, as long as there is life and snow, will always be there.
Kent Haruf / Novelist
Attempting
Elements
Endeavour
Landscape
Scope
Snow
Timeless
Weather
Life Long Will
Broaden
Falling
Irrespective
Leaves
Novels
Overnight
Storms
Trees
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After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework that first draft on a computer. Usually that involves expansion: filling in and adding to, but trying not to lose the spontaneous, direct sound. I use that first draft as a touchstone to make sure everything else in that section has the same sound, the same tone and impression of spontaneity.
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Long
Two
Writing
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That was on a night in August. Dad Lewis died early that morning and the young girl Alice from next door got lost in the evening and then found her way home in the dark by the streetlights of town and so returned to the people who loved her. And in the fall the days turned cold and the leaves dropped off the trees and in the winter the wind blew from the mountains and out on the high plains of Holt County there were overnight storms and three-day blizzards.
Kent Haruf / Novelist
Girl
Dad
Morning
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