“Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the ...” — Kent Haruf Quote

“Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhere. Those are not conditions exclusive to small towns.”

“I think that usually the risk in trying to write children in fiction is the tendency to make them too cute or something.”

“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.”

“And every match is different: you have different opponents, different situations, different conditions. So there's no one approach that's going to work all the time.”

“Even under normal conditions, how we can distinguish various events, various experiences, and be able to reproduce it later is, of course, a very interesting question and, I think, one that we face in day to day life.”

“Sometimes it is better to begin the journey, to get under way, then it is to sit back and wait until such time that you're convinced that all conditions are perfect and that there'll be no surprises along the route.”