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My hope is that what has gone before is only the introductory chapter of our love story. There are more memories to be made. ~ Ian — Willow Aster

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

Fame isn't healthy for a writer. — Kent Haruf

The precious ordinary. I — Kent Haruf

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

There is beauty in feeding others when you are spiritually or physically hungry yourself. — Lisa Donovan

In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them. — Mark Cuban

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

Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again. — Sam Walter Foss

My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn't come anymore, but I had his support. — Patti Smith

Love is the bridge between you and everything. — Rumi

I'm the reason Hulk Hogan lost his hair. — Roddy Piper

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

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

gate at the chain-link fence — Kent Haruf

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

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

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

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

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

You eat with your left hand. That's unacceptable. Can you do it with your right?"
"Can you do it with your left? — Jennifer A. Nielsen

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

You learn by playing a great team, and I'm talking about character things, not hockey technique. — Paul Coffey

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Constant idleness should be included in the tortures of hell, but it is, on the contrary, considered to be one of the joys of paradise. — Leo Tolstoy

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

Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved — Paula Scher

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

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

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

FORTY YEARS AGO, — Kent Haruf

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

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