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.
My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated. - Kent Haruf
My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated.
- Kent Haruf
Fame isn't healthy for a writer. - Kent Haruf
Fame isn't healthy for a writer.
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 wo… - Kent Haruf
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 wo…
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 ide… - Kent Haruf
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 ide…
It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before. - Kent Haruf
It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.
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 w… - Kent Haruf
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 w…
You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence. - Kent Haruf
You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence.
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 wh… - Kent Haruf
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 wh…
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 villag… - Kent Haruf
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 villag…
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