Zitat des Tages von Kent Haruf:
We'd do better to follow the admonition of Jesus about loving our neighbours. People in the U.S. are capable of forgiveness and willing to see one another's point of view, but when matters become politicised, we're less able to do that.
I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit down to write.
I write in a journal first, briefly. Then read something I've read many times before, for about half an hour, then rework what I wrote the day before.
In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.
I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.
Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years and published nothing before my first book.
Fame isn't healthy for a writer.
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.
