Ron Carlson Quotes

In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fact!

Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.

I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.

Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.

The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.

The writer is the person who stays in the room.

The big secret is the ability to stay in the room.

I'm not trying as a writer to be smart or to understand the inner workings of my narrator, I'm trying to survive the typing of this story.