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Kent Haruf Quotes

Fame isn't healthy for a writer.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 24, 1943 - November 30, 2014

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Healthy Fame Writer

The fact that I'm on 'Essex Anthems' makes me happy, especially because half of my family's from Essex.

Family Happy Me Half Because Fact

Beginnings are always messy.

John Galsworthy

Messy Always Beginnings

Just as black and white, when mixed, make grey, in many ways that's what it did to my self-identity: it created a murky area of who I was, a haze around how people connected with me. I was grey. And who wants to be this indifferent colour, devoid of depth and stuck in the middle? I certainly didn't.

Black And White People Me Black Grey

Every type of purely direct concrete description bears the mark of artistic portrayal.

Concrete Mark Bears Direct Every

I feel like I'm still learning a lot. I think there's a tendency for people who are just doing their first couple of films that I see now where they seem to be really resentful of the technical limitations that come along with filmmaking.

Learning People Think Feel Doing

I've always painted or drawn pictures or taken still photographs; now I shoot movies. It's just about making images, really.

Pictures Now Movies Always Shoot

I think that a good deal of poetry and art gives us some sense of access to another's voice, perception, texture of thought, imagination. Sometimes it gives us better access to the strangeness in ourselves.

Good Art Imagination Poetry Better

I started turning 40 at 38. I had pains all over my body. I couldn't sleep, I had rampant anxiety, and I couldn't stop eating and drinking.

Sleep Eating Anxiety Body Stop Over

I have been very lucky, I have only had one bad experience.

Experience Bad Lucky Only Been Very

I get up in the morning, get to the office, and write until about six o'clock in the evening.

Morning Evening Write Office Up Get

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Brooks Atkinson

God Past Thank God Year Go Silent

I hope to direct at some point, but I don't feel the pressure to rush it. I want to really know what it is that I'm doing.

Hope Pressure Feel Doing Know Want

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