Kent Haruf Inspirational Quotes (6)

This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the village idiot.

It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.

Fame isn't healthy for a writer.

Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.

Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.

A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me can't even imagine. They got ideas in their heads you and me can't even suppose.