Top 50 Ron Rash Quotes (2024 Update)

Ron Rash Quote: “A small profit it better than a big loss.”

1. “A small profit it better than a big loss.”

Ron Rash Quote: “One thing’s sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children.”

2. “One thing’s sure and nothing surer. The rich get richer and the poor get- children.”

Ron Rash Quote: “I think that’s what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.”

3. “I think that’s what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.”

Ron Rash Quote: “It’s a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start.”

4. “It’s a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start.”

Ron Rash Quote: “But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don’t need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.”

5. “But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don’t need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.”

Ron Rash Quote: “Some claim heaven has streets of gold and all such things, but I hold a different notion. When we’re there, we’ll say to the angels, why, a lot of heaven’s glory was in the place we come from. And you know what them angels will say? They’ll say yes, pilgrim, and how often did you notice? What did you seek?”

6. “Some claim heaven has streets of gold and all such things, but I hold a different notion. When we’re there, we’ll say to the angels, why, a lot of heaven’s glory was in the place we come from. And you know what them angels will say? They’ll say yes, pilgrim, and how often did you notice? What did you seek?”

Ron Rash Quote: “Spend a long time alone, especially if you’re someone who’s never been that social to begin with, and you find yourself craving solitude.”

7. “Spend a long time alone, especially if you’re someone who’s never been that social to begin with, and you find yourself craving solitude.”

Ron Rash Quote: “Don’t love anything that can be taken away.”

8. “Don’t love anything that can be taken away.”

Ron Rash Quote: “What I’ve become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you’d rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself – if I’m not going be able to write, I’m not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.”

9. “What I’ve become convinced makes a writer are the days you hate it, the days you’d rather stick those pencils in your eyes. Sometimes I almost punish myself – if I’m not going be able to write, I’m not going be able to do anything else. I just sit there and wait.”

Ron Rash Quote: “A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn’t continue to exist in the world.”

10. “A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn’t continue to exist in the world.”

Ron Rash Quote: “Do this one thing.”

11. “Do this one thing.”

Ron Rash Quote: “Nietzsche once said “that for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.” I didn’t believe that, but to willfully defy the quote was to tempt fate – and if to find it true, to know nothing remained but emptiness.”

12. “Nietzsche once said “that for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts.” I didn’t believe that, but to willfully defy the quote was to tempt fate – and if to find it true, to know nothing remained but emptiness.”

Ron Rash Quote: “Peter Geye has rendered the Minnesota north shore in all its stark, dangerous beauty, and it is the perfect backdrop for this deeply moving story of conflict and forgiveness. Safe from the Sea is a remarkable debut.”

13. “Peter Geye has rendered the Minnesota north shore in all its stark, dangerous beauty, and it is the perfect backdrop for this deeply moving story of conflict and forgiveness. Safe from the Sea is a remarkable debut.”

Ron Rash Quote: “I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That’s where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.”

14. “I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That’s where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.”

Ron Rash Quote: “I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.”

15. “I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.”

Ron Rash Quote: “He suspected the workers thought of Serena as beyond gender, the same as they might some phenomenon of nature such as rain or lightning.”

16. “He suspected the workers thought of Serena as beyond gender, the same as they might some phenomenon of nature such as rain or lightning.”

Ron Rash Quote: “We had some good times at school. I didn’t know how good those times were until I left, but I guess that’s the way of it.”

17. “We had some good times at school. I didn’t know how good those times were until I left, but I guess that’s the way of it.”

Ron Rash Quote: “Maybe that was what happened when people grew up in a place where mountains shut them in, kept everything turned inward, buffered them from everything else. How long did it take before that landscape become internalized, was passed down from generation to generation like blood type or eye color?”

18. “Maybe that was what happened when people grew up in a place where mountains shut them in, kept everything turned inward, buffered them from everything else. How long did it take before that landscape become internalized, was passed down from generation to generation like blood type or eye color?”

Ron Rash Quote: “You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn’t choose right, things got narrow real quick.”

19. “You got one choice at the beginning but if you didn’t choose right, things got narrow real quick.”

Ron Rash Quote: “So people surprise us. They can lie to each other, as my brother had done to me, and as I had lied to him that September evening at Panther Creek, and now it appeared those two lies could only lead to one imponderable truth.”

20. “So people surprise us. They can lie to each other, as my brother had done to me, and as I had lied to him that September evening at Panther Creek, and now it appeared those two lies could only lead to one imponderable truth.”

Ron Rash Quote: “I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for Serena.”

21. “I learnt how to hunt rattlesnakes with an eagle for Serena.”

Ron Rash Quote: “A brown trout sips one off the surface. Beneath the trout, mica-flecked sand gleams white. Come fall the female’s caudal fin will nudge the grains to make a nest, the eggs spilling like pearls into a purse.”

22. “A brown trout sips one off the surface. Beneath the trout, mica-flecked sand gleams white. Come fall the female’s caudal fin will nudge the grains to make a nest, the eggs spilling like pearls into a purse.”

Ron Rash Quote: “Jacob closed his eyes but did not sleep. Instead, he imagined towns where hungry men hung on boxcars looking for work that couldn’t be found, shacks where families lived who didn’t even have one swaybacked milk cow. He imagined cities where blood stained the sidewalks beneath buildings tall as ridges. He tried to imagine a place worse than where he was.”

23. “Jacob closed his eyes but did not sleep. Instead, he imagined towns where hungry men hung on boxcars looking for work that couldn’t be found, shacks where families lived who didn’t even have one swaybacked milk cow. He imagined cities where blood stained the sidewalks beneath buildings tall as ridges. He tried to imagine a place worse than where he was.”

Ron Rash Quote: “He carries what he feels for people deep inside. Even as a kid he was that way,” Aunt Margaret said. “Your momma knows that.” But I had wondered then as I did now what good love was that couldn’t be expressed.”

24. “He carries what he feels for people deep inside. Even as a kid he was that way,” Aunt Margaret said. “Your momma knows that.” But I had wondered then as I did now what good love was that couldn’t be expressed.”

Ron Rash Quote: “I guess sometimes you’ve got the hope-fors so much it makes you imagine all sorts of things.”

25. “I guess sometimes you’ve got the hope-fors so much it makes you imagine all sorts of things.”

Ron Rash Quote: “Like Flannery O’Connor, McCorkle’s genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing, poignancy, humor, wisdom-all are in abundance here. Jill McCorkle is one of the South’s greatest writers; she is also one of America’s.”

26. “Like Flannery O’Connor, McCorkle’s genius is to give us both philosophical speculation and a riveting narrative filled with unforgettable characters. Great writing, poignancy, humor, wisdom-all are in abundance here. Jill McCorkle is one of the South’s greatest writers; she is also one of America’s.”

Ron Rash Quote: “Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better.”

27. “Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better.”

Ron Rash Quote: “Water has its own archaeology, not a layering but a leveling, and thus is truer to our sense of the past, because what is memory but near and far events spread and smoothed beneath the present’s surface.”

28. “Water has its own archaeology, not a layering but a leveling, and thus is truer to our sense of the past, because what is memory but near and far events spread and smoothed beneath the present’s surface.”

Ron Rash Quote: “You men notice so little, Pemberton. Physical strength is your gender’s sole advantage.”

29. “You men notice so little, Pemberton. Physical strength is your gender’s sole advantage.”

Ron Rash Quote: “One guy has his head on a table, eyes closed, vomit drooling from his mouth. Another pulls out his false teeth and clamps them on the ear of a gal at the next table. An immense woman in a purple jumpsuit is crying while another woman screams at her. And what I’m thinking is maybe it’s time to halt all human reproduction. Let God or evolution or wathever put us here in the first place start again from scratch, because this isn’t working.”

30. “One guy has his head on a table, eyes closed, vomit drooling from his mouth. Another pulls out his false teeth and clamps them on the ear of a gal at the next table. An immense woman in a purple jumpsuit is crying while another woman screams at her. And what I’m thinking is maybe it’s time to halt all human reproduction. Let God or evolution or wathever put us here in the first place start again from scratch, because this isn’t working.”

Ron Rash Quote: “I turn onto North Market Street to pass Thomas Wolfe’s house. I’d planned to do my dissertation on Wolfe. My advisor argued against it. Wolfe is all but forgotten now, she said, which seemed all the more reason to do it, so he would not be forgotten, or only, as Wolfe himself wrote, by the wind grieved. The.”

31. “I turn onto North Market Street to pass Thomas Wolfe’s house. I’d planned to do my dissertation on Wolfe. My advisor argued against it. Wolfe is all but forgotten now, she said, which seemed all the more reason to do it, so he would not be forgotten, or only, as Wolfe himself wrote, by the wind grieved. The.”

Ron Rash Quote: “One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.”

32. “One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.”

Ron Rash Quote: “I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I’ve always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story’s larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.”

33. “I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I’ve always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I spend a lot of time on the story’s larger rhythms, such as sentence and paragraph length, placement of flashbacks and dialogue.”

Ron Rash Quote: “Some of the highlanders considered the true Christmas to be on January fourteenth. Old Christmas, they called it, believing it was the day the magi visited the Christ child.”

34. “Some of the highlanders considered the true Christmas to be on January fourteenth. Old Christmas, they called it, believing it was the day the magi visited the Christ child.”

Ron Rash Quote: “Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in ‘The Trusty’ was going for water, I did not know that he would meet a fetching young farm wife until I got him into her front yard.”

35. “Sometimes I know what my characters are moving away from or toward; more often I just wait and see. For instance, though I knew Sinkler in ‘The Trusty’ was going for water, I did not know that he would meet a fetching young farm wife until I got him into her front yard.”

Ron Rash Quote: “I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.”

36. “I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.”

Ron Rash Quote: “I wouldn’t mind being a track and field coach.”

37. “I wouldn’t mind being a track and field coach.”

Ron Rash Quote: “I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read ‘Crime and Punishment,’ and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, ’cause it was the first time that I hadn’t just entered a book, but a book had entered me.”

38. “I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read ‘Crime and Punishment,’ and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, ’cause it was the first time that I hadn’t just entered a book, but a book had entered me.”

Ron Rash Quote: “Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond.”

39. “Not for the first time, it occurred to me that sorrow could be purified into song the same way a piece of coal is purified into a diamond.”

Ron Rash Quote: “He couldn’t imagine such a moment, believed instead that Serena’s beauty was like certain laws of math and physics, fixed and immutable.”

40. “He couldn’t imagine such a moment, believed instead that Serena’s beauty was like certain laws of math and physics, fixed and immutable.”

Ron Rash Quote: “Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.”

41. “Most folks stay in the dark and then complain they can’t see nothing.”

Ron Rash Quote: “Then her mind had wandered into a place she could not follow, taking with it all the people she knew, their names and connections, whether they still lived or whether they’d died. But her body lingered, shed of an inner being, empty as a cicada husk.”

42. “Then her mind had wandered into a place she could not follow, taking with it all the people she knew, their names and connections, whether they still lived or whether they’d died. But her body lingered, shed of an inner being, empty as a cicada husk.”

Ron Rash Quote: “Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.”

43. “Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.”

Ron Rash Quote: “My mother had brought me here when I was fifteen, on a Sunday after I’d read Look Homeward, Angel for the first time. She’d loved the novel, memorizing whole paragraphs, and, of course, naming me after the book’s main character. It is a novel you have to read as a young person or you don’t get it.”

44. “My mother had brought me here when I was fifteen, on a Sunday after I’d read Look Homeward, Angel for the first time. She’d loved the novel, memorizing whole paragraphs, and, of course, naming me after the book’s main character. It is a novel you have to read as a young person or you don’t get it.”

Ron Rash Quote: “He’d felt incredibly lucky they’d found one another, though Serena had already told him their meeting wasn’t mere good fortune but inevitability.”

45. “He’d felt incredibly lucky they’d found one another, though Serena had already told him their meeting wasn’t mere good fortune but inevitability.”

Ron Rash Quote: “I listened to time clicking like hooves on pavement. But time isn’t something you can rein in. It moves on without pause, taking us with it no matter how much we wish it otherwise.”

46. “I listened to time clicking like hooves on pavement. But time isn’t something you can rein in. It moves on without pause, taking us with it no matter how much we wish it otherwise.”

Ron Rash Quote: “As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.”

47. “As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.”

Ron Rash Quote: “She’d never known fear had a taste, but it did.”

48. “She’d never known fear had a taste, but it did.”

Ron Rash Quote: “My experience has been that altruism is invariably a means to conceal one’s personal failures.”

49. “My experience has been that altruism is invariably a means to conceal one’s personal failures.”

Ron Rash Quote: “The world lies all before us.”

50. “The world lies all before us.”

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