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Kent Haruf

Kent Haruf Books

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Kent Haruf was an American novelist known for his vivid portrayal of rural life in the American Midwest. His works delve into the complexities of human nature and the diversity of society, earning him a dedicated following among readers.

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“You're not talking to her, Maggie Jones said. You and Raymond don't talk like you should to that girl. Women want to hear some conversation in the evening. We don't think that's too much to ask. We're willing to put up with a lot from you men, but in the evening we want to hear some talking. We want to have a little conversation in the house.”

Men Love Women Relationships Silence Family Conversation Understanding Others

Book:Plainsong

Source: Plainsong

“Who does ever get what they want? It doesn’t seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It’s always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.”

Love Life Wisdom Life Lessons Relationships Marriage Dreams Reflection Couples

Book:Our Souls at Night

Source: Our Souls at Night

“I wonder if you would come and sleep in the night with me. And talk.”

Home Tenderness

Author:Kent Haruf

“Love is the most important part of life isn't it. If you have love, you can live in this world in a true way and if you love each other you can see past everything and accept what you don't understand and forgive what you don't know or don't like. Love is all. Love is patient and boundless and right-hearted and long-suffering. Move”

Love Suffering Understanding Relationships Acceptance Forgiveness Patience

Book:Benediction

Source: Benediction

“The evening wasn’t cold yet... But the air was turning sharp, with a fall feeling of loneliness coming. Something unaccountable pending in the air.”

Change Loneliness

Book:Plainsong

Source: Plainsong

“Love is the most important part of life isn't it. If you have love, you can live in this world in a true way and if you love each other you can see past everything and accept what you don't understand and forgive what you don't now or don't like. Love is all. Love is patient and boundless and right-hearted and long-suffering.”

Love Relationships Marriage Acceptance Forgiveness Patience

Book:Benediction

Source: Benediction

“And they had folded his brother's hands across his suited chest, as if he would be preserved in this sanguine pose forever, but only the heavy callouses visible at the sides of his hands seemed real. It was only the callouses that appeared to be familiar and believable.”

Book:Eventide

Source: Eventide

“Why hell, look at us. Old men alone. Decrepit old bachelors out here in the country seventeen miles from the closest town which don't amount to much of a good goddamn even when you get there. Think of us. Crotchety and ignorant. Lonesome. Independent. Set in all our ways. How you going to change now at this age of life? I can't say, Raymond said. But I'm going to. That's what I know.”

Change Rural America Crotchety Old Men

Book:Plainsong

Source: Plainsong

“È sempre un incontro alla cieca tra due persone che mettono in scena vecchie idee e sogni e impressioni sbagliate.”

Sogni Impressioni Kent Haruf Le Nostre Anime Di Notte

Book:Our Souls at Night

Source: Our Souls at Night

“Who does ever get what they want? It doesn't seem to happen to many of us if any at all. It's always two people bumping against each other blindly, acting out of old ideas and dreams and mistaken understandings.”

Marriage Human Interaction Life Expectations

Author:Kent Haruf

“Certo che non è giusto. Niente in questa faccenda è giusto. La vita non lo è. E tutti i nostri pensieri su come dovrebbe essere non servono a un cavolo, a quanto pare. Tanto vale che tu lo sappia subito.”

Book:The Tie That Binds

Source: The Tie That Binds

“I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.”

Writing Firsts Book Publish

Author:Kent Haruf

“Fame isn't healthy for a writer.”

Author:Kent Haruf

“I wake each day and try to see what I might do that is of some value and joy. It's a strange life. I don't know how long it'll go on. I don't look past tomorrow. Anything beyond tomorrow seems like hearsay. Or fairy tales.”

Knows Trying Looks Long Seems Might Past Joy Values Know How Strange Goes On Tomorrow Tales Fairy Each Day Fairy Tale Hearsay

Author:Kent Haruf

“My desire is to be anonymous, isolated, quiet, peaceful, and concentrated.”

Desire Quiet Peaceful Isolated

Author:Kent Haruf

“Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.”

Said Where You Are Honey Listen To Me Victoria Maggie

Author:Kent Haruf

“He wanted to think of words that would make some difference but there were none in any language he knew that were sufficient to the moment or that would change a single thing.”

Thinking Moments Wanted Language Differences Sufficient

Author:Kent Haruf

“This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the village idiot.”

People Thinking Mean Country Term Crazy Fame Hollywood Idiot Village Starlets Village Idiots

Author:Kent Haruf

“After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework that first draft on a computer. Usually that involves expansion: filling in and adding to, but trying not to lose the spontaneous, direct sound. I use that first draft as a touchstone to make sure everything else in that section has the same sound, the same tone and impression of spontaneity.”

Writing Trying Firsts Long Two Use Three Sound Loses Week Computer Direct Impression Tone Expansion Spontaneous Sections Filling Spontaneity Finishing Touchstones Filling In Rework

Author:Kent Haruf

“Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.”

Men House Sun Standing Window Kitchen Smoking Toms Cigarette Smoking Cigarettes

Author:Kent Haruf

“A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me can't even imagine. They got ideas in their heads you and me can't even suppose.”

Want Needs Ideas Different Purpose Girl Imagine Schedules

Author:Kent Haruf

“It seems to me nothing man has done or built on this land is an improvement over what was here before.”

Men Done Seems Land Built Improvement

Author:Kent Haruf

“That was on a night in August. Dad Lewis died early that morning and the young girl Alice from next door got lost in the evening and then found her way home in the dark by the streetlights of town and so returned to the people who loved her. And in the fall the days turned cold and the leaves dropped off the trees and in the winter the wind blew from the mountains and out on the high plains of Holt County there were overnight storms and three-day blizzards.”

People Way Home Young Night Fall Girl Three Next Found Lost Dark Morning Doors Tree Wind Cold Dad Mountain Died Towns Winter Storm Evening County August Way Home Blizzard

Book:Benediction

Source: Benediction

“You have to believe in yourself despite the evidence.”

Believe Evidence Despite Believe In Yourself Believe In You

Author:Kent Haruf

About the Author

Born: February 24, 1943
Died: November 30, 2014
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 24

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