Ron Rash Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• What I've become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you'd rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself - if I'm not going be able to write, I'm not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.

  Ron Rash

  Hate, Writing, Eye

• Like Flannery O'Connor, McCorkle's genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing, poignancy, humor, wisdom-all are in abundance here. Jill McCorkle is one of the South's greatest writers; she is also one of America's.

  Ron Rash

  Philosophical, Writing, Character

• Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.

  Ron Rash

  Writing, Taught, Regions

• I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.

  Ron Rash

  Writing, Different, Diaries

  "This Week in Fiction: Ron Rash" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2011.

• I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.

  Ron Rash

  Character, Writing, Thinking

  "'Nothing Gold' Stays Long In Appalachia". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. February 16, 2013.

• I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.

  Ron Rash

  Writing, Thinking, Long

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