Top 35 Ron Carlson Quotes

#1. Maybe if the men in my life weren't always making smart-ass comments, they wouldn't have to worry about bruises so much.

Julie Powell

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#2. 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 prince was a fact!

Ron Carlson

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#3. Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.

Arnold Palmer

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#4. Get down, get naked, get savage.

Ron Carlson

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#5. It is philosophically impossible to be an atheist, since to be an atheist you must have infinite knowledge in order to know absolutely that there is no God. But to have infinite knowledge, you would have to be God yourself. It's hard to be God yourself and an atheist at the same time!

Ron Carlson

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#6. The big secret is the ability to stay in the room.

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#7. Learning to drive in Canberra is pretty easy and I had great teachers in my parents.

Melissa Breen

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#8. 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

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

Ron Carlson

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#10. 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 book and all written with felicitous and steady grace.

Ron Carlson

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#11. Our pasts so many times determine the value of what is happening today. Everybody is midway in their story.

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#12. I always write from my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.

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#13. Life is not so much reality as it it interpretation.

Dony Hia

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#14. I was writing a third novel when my kids arrived. And I looked at that book about whether these two people would get together, and I thought, 'I don't care! I've got kids!'

Ron Carlson

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#15. I don't write for theme, but if you work closely on some guy fixing a sandwich or a window or a table or trying to visit an old teacher or walking down the street on which he was a boy, a theme, a human hope, will emerge.

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#16. My first novel was called 'Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald,' about the difficulties of graduating from college, the longing and mourning you feel when all your promise seems to float away.

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#17. No one among us suffers the radical appreciation for coffee that I do. It calls to me, but I have learned not to listen.

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#18. I have these habits. I'm not a crazy artist. Or am I?

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#19. Place colors everything; It is the thing by which I find my way in my fiction.

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#20. I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story.

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#21. If we're really writing, we are exploring the unnamed emotional facets of the human heart. Not all emotions, not all states of mind have been named. Nor are all the names we have been given always accurate.

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

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#23. 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 got to college they told us that a frog turning into a prince was science.

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#24. My parents were farmers' kids from South Dakota. My dad was an engineer. I wanted to be responsible and major in something pragmatic.

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#25. Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

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#26. people are brought into our path for a reason. There is always something to be taught or to be learned, either for one of you or for both. And

Laura Lynne Jackson

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#27. The writer is the person who stays in the room.

Ron Carlson

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#28. An ugly man, with a face sharp like a weasel and a habit of running a flickering tongue over his lips before he speaks. But most ugly of all are his eyes: blue, bright blue. When people see them, they flinch. Such things are freakish. He is lucky he was not killed at birth.

Madeline Miller

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#29. I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life.

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#30. I'm not at all sure dialogue is meant to advance the story; I know that sometimes it is the story.

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#31. I'm a Midwesterner.

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#32. I'm a recovered alcoholic. I don't do anything anymore, but those things, those things take away ... You're a different personality completely when you take those. For those who are really chemically dependent on anything, it's not you.

Stan Getz

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#33. I love whimsy. My mother was a word person, a real quipster. She was famous in the 1950s for being a contester in Utah: 25 words or less. My bicycle, our hi-fi ... in 1959, she won $15,000 from Remington-Rand for writing about a shaver. She was a farm girl from South Dakota.

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#34. I believe in teaching as a real job. I don't think it's a substitute for anything else. It's been shown to me that teachers can help, and the writing today is just as good as it was when I started out. Technology hasn't changed that.

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#35. Writing a book is very personal. It's a very personal relationship. A book will start with something as simple as two men talking about work. That gets the fire going. Sustaining that fire is the hard work. It takes attention and empathy to hone the characters.

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