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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

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

The precious ordinary. I — Kent Haruf

Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace. — Barack Obama

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

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

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 have to believe in yourself despite the evidence. — 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

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

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

[Great literature] lifts you out of the here and now and brings you closer to the angels. — Allison Burnett

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

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

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

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion. — Honore De Balzac

Reason cannot break out of its own loop. — Mason Cooley

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

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

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

I don't believe that. I don't believe that there are bad things about you. Only things that you think are bad. — Jessica Sorensen

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

FORTY YEARS AGO, — Kent Haruf

I can tell you I love you as many times as you can stand to hear it, but all it does is remind us that love is not enough. Not even close. — Mark Andrus

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