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Ron Rash

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

– Ron Rash

Ron Rash

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

– Ron Rash

Ron Rash

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

– Ron Rash

Ron Rash

Cool-Hand Luke’ is one of my favorite movies.

– Ron Rash

Ron Rash

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

– Ron Rash

Ron Rash

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

Ron Rash

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

Ron Rash

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

Ron Rash

On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this stage I’m often surprised. A different ending or a new character shows up and I’m back to where I began, letting the story happen, just trying to stay out of the way.

– Ron Rash

Ron Rash

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

Ron Rash

Furthermore, even if ideas were gettable – say, stacked in a secluded cave like the Dead Sea scrolls – I wouldn’t go there. An ‘idea,’ especially one adhered to from start to finish, can be disastrous for a compelling piece of fiction.

– Ron Rash

Ron Rash

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

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