Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.

- Ron Carlson

The writer is the person who stays in the room.

- Ron Carlson

The men and women, the weapons, the deerhunt all make a huge and fragile danger in John Bolger's novel The Hunters. There is care and harm in this bo…

- Ron Carlson

Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.

- Ron Carlson

I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.

- Ron Carlson

In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prin…

- Ron Carlson

Get down, get naked, get savage.

- Ron Carlson

It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince was a nursery fairy tale, but when we …

- Ron Carlson

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

- Ron Carlson