Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon. 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 frogstaughtschool 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 atheistimpossibleorder I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not. Ron Carlson my-ownwriting 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 frogstaught-uscollege Get down, get naked, get savage. Ron Carlson savagesnaked The writer is the person who stays in the room. Ron Carlson personsrooms The big secret is the ability to stay in the room. Ron Carlson craftssecretrooms 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 miscellaneousidolatrystones 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 tolerancestoriesheart 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 gracemenbook 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 happeningvaluestorytoday Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us. Ron Carlson surprisesusexperiencelife 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 wordsgirlmotherlove 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 goodmetechnologytoday Place colors everything; It is the thing by which I find my way in my fiction. Ron Carlson findplacecolorsway 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 youhopeworkteacher 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-togethercaretogetherpeople I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life. Ron Carlson boylivemy-lifelife
