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Larry Watson was an American author born in Iowa, USA, in 1947. His works, which focus on the rural life in the American Midwest, have won the hearts of readers. His representative works include 'American Dream' and 'Country Light'.

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All Grief Grieving Love Summer Autumn Boyhood Breaths Brother Childhood Childhood Trauma

Famous Larry Watson Quotes

“The limitless, lowering sky, the long stretches of motionless empty prairie, the silence, complete right down to the absence of birdsong -- who knows what decides a man to leave most of his words unspoken?”

Silence Repressed Emotions Quiet Men Taciturn Men Undemonstrative Men

Book:Let Him Go

Source: Let Him Go

“Out of town I could simply be, I could feel my self, firm and calm and unmalleable as I could not when I was in school or in any of the usual human communities that seemed to weaken or scatter me. I could sit for an hour in the rocks above the Knife River, asking for no more discourse than that water’s monotonous gabble. I was an inward child, it was true, but beyond that, I felt a contentment outside human society that I couldn’t feel within it.”

Self Nature Society Solitude Introversion

Book:Montana 1948

Source: Montana 1948

“A four-year-old has so little past, and he remembers almost none of it, neither the father he once had nor the house where he once lived. But he can feel the absences – and feel them as sensation, like a texture that was once at his fingers every day but now is gone and no matter how he gropes or reaches his hand he cannot touch what’s no longer there.”

Love Grief Childhood Youth Experience Grieving Childhood Trauma

Book:Let Him Go

Source: Let Him Go

“Long past the moment when her neck begins to stiffen and ache, she continues to stare into the darkness, even though none of the human secrets she needs to know are to be found in the stars but rather closer to the earth her boots stand upon.”

Love Grief Sadness Determination Longing Grieving Grit Fierceness

Book:Let Him Go

Source: Let Him Go

“Autumn has come to northeast Montana. The vapor of one’s breath, the clarity of the stars, the smell of wood smoke, the stones underfoot that even a full day of sunlight won’t warm- these all say there will be no more days that can be mistaken for summer.”

Stars Summer Stones Breaths Woods Warm Smell Clarity Smoke Autumn Sunlight Mistaken Montana Vapor

Author:Larry Watson

“Brothers naturally invite comparison.”

Brother Comparison Invites

Book:Montana 1948: A Novel

Source: Montana 1948: A Novel

“Two months ago my mother died. She made, as the expression goes, a good death.”

Made Two Death Mother Expression Months Died Two Months Mother Died

Book:Montana 1948: A Novel

Source: Montana 1948: A Novel

“From the summer of my twelfth year I carry a series of images more vivid and lasting than any others of my boyhood and indelible beyond all attempts the years make to erase or fade them.”

Years Summer Series Lasting Fades Vivid Erase Boyhood Indelible

Book:Montana 1948: A Novel

Source: Montana 1948: A Novel

About the Author

Born: 1947
Died: July 20, 2010
Known for: Author
Quotes: 8

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