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Paul Harding Quotes

The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the protagonist from one novel you’ve read has a cameo role in another. I think that recognition is a very, very powerful phenomenon; it is one of the deepest and greatest pleasures of reading Picture Quote #1

The silver lining of those years when I was trying to get ‘Tinkers’ published but couldn’t were the years when I had to decide, Why do I want to be a writer? I realized that writing is the thing itself; writing is not a means to publication, writing is not a predicate of publication, so I spent years making art for art’s sake Picture Quote #1

Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human experience, and not obscurely about what will prove to be received opinion or cliche once the reader figures out your stylistic conceit. There’s all the difference in the world between mystery and mystification Picture Quote #1

Don’t confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact Picture Quote #1

Contrary to all those times you’ve heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth Picture Quote #1

I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it Picture Quote #1

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When his grandchildren had been little, they had asked if they could hide inside the clock. Now he wanted to gather them and open himself up and hide them among his ribs and faintly ticking heart Picture Quote #1

And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it Picture Quote #1

What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equal to so many sudden orders of sorrow, any one of which alone would have wrenched us from our fragile orbits around each other Picture Quote #1

Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed Picture Quote #1

I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the crucial time for your thoughts to simmer and evolve and build up nuance, depth and empathy Picture Quote #1

Don’t confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact Picture Quote #1

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Contrary to all those times you’ve heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth Picture Quote #1

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game Picture Quote #1

He smelled cold water and cold intrepid green. Those early flowers smelled like cold water. Their fragrance was not the still perfume of high summer; it was the smell of cold, raw green Picture Quote #1

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The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the protagonist from one novel you’ve read has a cameo role in another. I think that recognition is a very, very powerful phenomenon; it is one of the deepest and greatest pleasures of reading. (Paul Harding Quotes) The silver lining of those years when I was trying to get ‘Tinkers’ published but couldn’t were the years when I had to decide, Why do I want to be a writer? I realized that writing is the thing itself; writing is not a means to publication, writing is not a predicate of publication, so I spent years making art for art’s sake. (Paul Harding Quotes) Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human experience, and not obscurely about what will prove to be received opinion or cliche once the reader figures out your stylistic conceit. There’s all the difference in the world between mystery and mystification. (Paul Harding Quotes) Don’t confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact. (Paul Harding Quotes) Contrary to all those times you’ve heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth. (Paul Harding Quotes) I breathed the book before I saw it; tasted the book before I read it (Paul Harding Quotes) When his grandchildren had been little, they had asked if they could hide inside the clock. Now he wanted to gather them and open himself up and hide them among his ribs and faintly ticking heart (Paul Harding Quotes) And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it (Paul Harding Quotes) What an awful thing then, being there in our house together with our daughter gone, trying to be equal to so many sudden orders of sorrow, any one of which alone would have wrenched us from our fragile orbits around each other (Paul Harding Quotes) Light changes, our eyes blink and see the world from the slightest difference of perspective and our place in it has changed (Paul Harding Quotes) I worry that if whatever pops into your head at any instant immediately goes online, you lose the crucial time for your thoughts to simmer and evolve and build up nuance, depth and empathy (Paul Harding Quotes) Don’t confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact (Paul Harding Quotes) Contrary to all those times you’ve heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is all about telling the truth (Paul Harding Quotes) If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game (Paul Harding Quotes) He smelled cold water and cold intrepid green. Those early flowers smelled like cold water. Their fragrance was not the still perfume of high summer; it was the smell of cold, raw green (Paul Harding Quotes)