Donald Harington Quotes

#1. If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn't have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing.

Donald Harington

#2. Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.

Donald Harington

#3. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer.

Donald Harington

#4. There is a popular saying, "More rare than pine is the smell of pining" - which is rare indeed, for there are few pine trees in this part of the Ozarks.

Donald Harington

#5. There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

Donald Harington

#6. Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.

Donald Harington

#7. This here will be the future tense and you will be able to do anything you will like in it.

Donald Harington