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Kent Haruf quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Fame isn't healthy for a writer.

Fame isn't healthy for a writer.

Kent Haruf quotes: The precious ordinary. I

The precious ordinary. I

Kent Haruf quotes: Sins of omission, Louis said. You don't believe in sins. I believe there are failures of character, like I said before. That's a sin.

Sins of omission, Louis said.
You don't believe in sins.
I believe there are failures of character, like I said before. That's a sin.

Kent Haruf quotes: You're going to die some day without ever having had enough trouble in your life. Not of the right kind anyway.

You're going to die some day without ever having had enough trouble in your life. Not of the right kind anyway.

Kent Haruf quotes: You understand? If you can read you can cook. You can always feed yourselves. You remember that.

You understand? If you can read you can cook. You can always feed yourselves. You remember that.

Kent Haruf quotes: My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated.

My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated.

Kent Haruf quotes: gate at the chain-link fence

gate at the chain-link fence

Kent Haruf quotes: So life hasn't turned out right for either of us, not the way we expected,' he said. 'Except it feels good now, at this moment.

So life hasn't turned out right for either of us, not the way we expected,' he said.
'Except it feels good now, at this moment.

Kent Haruf quotes: 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.

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 quotes: quit trying to fix things and we settled into our long polite and quiet life.

quit trying to fix things and we settled into our long polite and quiet life.

Kent Haruf quotes: I made up my mind I'm not going to pay attention to what people think. I've done that too long - all my life. I'm not going to live that

I made up my mind I'm not going to pay attention to what people think. I've done that too long - all my life. I'm not going to live that way anymore.

Kent Haruf quotes: Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.

Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.

Kent Haruf quotes: But we didn't know anything in our twenties when we were first married. It was all just instinct and the patterns we'd grown up with.

But we didn't know anything in our twenties when we were first married. It was all just instinct and the patterns we'd grown up with.

Kent Haruf quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Our Souls at Night open onto larger insights about getting older?

Our Souls at Night open onto larger insights about getting older?

Kent Haruf quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.

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 quotes: This don't look like no Sunday school church meeting to me.

This don't look like no Sunday school church meeting to me.

Kent Haruf quotes: Well, I'm just going to say it.I'm listening, Louis said.I wonder if you would consider coming to my house sometimes to sleep with me.

Well, I'm just going to say it.
I'm listening, Louis said.
I wonder if you would consider coming to my house sometimes to sleep with me.

Kent Haruf quotes: You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence.

You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence.

Kent Haruf quotes: In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.

In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.

Kent Haruf quotes: I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

Kent Haruf quotes: It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

Kent Haruf quotes: You have been good for me. What more could anyone ask for? I'm a better person than I was before we got together. That's your doing.

You have been good for me. What more could anyone ask for? I'm a better person than I was before we got together. That's your doing.

Kent Haruf quotes: This ain't going to be no goddamn Sunday school picnic.

This ain't going to be no goddamn Sunday school picnic.

Kent Haruf quotes: Oh I feel better already talking with you here next to me.

Oh I feel better already talking with you here next to me.

Kent Haruf quotes: FORTY YEARS AGO,

FORTY YEARS AGO,

Kent Haruf quotes: It was surprising to him, how quickly she could fall asleep.

It was surprising to him, how quickly she could fall asleep.