What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were pushed out toward th…

- Paul Harding

I was just delighted to be a legitimate, for-real published author.

- Paul Harding

There is my father whispering in my ear, Be still still still. And yet you change everything. What was the marsh like, waiting for the storm before y…

- Paul Harding

I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it.

- Paul Harding

And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive…

- Paul Harding

Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is a…

- Paul Harding

Who was the greatest business man ever. . . The greatest salesman? Advertiser? Who? . . . It was Jesus. . . Jesus was the founder of modern business.…

- Paul Harding

I was ravenous for my child and took to gorging myself in the boneyard, hoping that she might possibly meet me halfway, or just beyond, one night, if…

- Paul Harding

Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed.

- Paul Harding