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.

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• Kent Haruf:

  I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didn't publish my first book until I was 41.

• Kent Haruf:

  Death is a fact of life, no matter where you live. Taking care of the dying is a necessity everywhe

• Kent Haruf:

  Writing is the hardest thing I know, but it was the only thing I wanted to do. I wrote for 20 years

• Kent Haruf:

  We'd do better to follow the admonition of Jesus about loving our neighbours. People in the U.S. ar

• Kent Haruf:

  In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced

• Kent Haruf:

  I'm attempting to broaden my novels' scope through landscape and weather, leaves falling off trees,

• Kent Haruf:

  Writers who aren't from rural states in the Midwest or the West often treat such people as if they

• Kent Haruf:

  Fame isn't healthy for a writer.

• Jerry Nachman:

  There's a lot of peer pressure to not do positive stories out of Iraq... I think there's a sense th

• Jerry Nachman:

  I didn't miss the rat race, but I kinda missed the rats.