I'm not at all sure dialogue is meant to advance the story; I know that sometimes it is the story. Ron Carlson More Quotes by Ron Carlson More Quotes From 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 prince was a fact! Ron Carlson frogs taught school 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 atheist impossible order I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not. Ron Carlson my-own writing Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon. Ron Carlson keys moon long 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. Ron Carlson frogs taught-us college Get down, get naked, get savage. Ron Carlson savages naked The writer is the person who stays in the room. Ron Carlson persons rooms The big secret is the ability to stay in the room. Ron Carlson crafts secret rooms 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 miscellaneous idolatry stones 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 tolerance stories heart 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 grace men book It may be difficult for the prosecutor to sort out exactly who is responsible. Ron Carlson entertainment He wasn't sending other people into a place where he thought it was dangerous to go and that was evidenced by his own presence there. Ron Carlson entertainment Our pasts so many times determine the value of what is happening today. Everybody is midway in their story. Ron Carlson happening value story today Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us. Ron Carlson surprises us experience life 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. Ron Carlson words girl mother love 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. Ron Carlson good me technology today Place colors everything; It is the thing by which I find my way in my fiction. Ron Carlson find place colors way 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. Ron Carlson you hope work teacher 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 get-together care together people
