“Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover.” LittlesCountryOpinionSceneConstantContraryHillsLandscapeFlatsPoolRollingEasternHandsomeImaginativeCrowdedIowaCreeksTimberSmall ChangesCatfishRolling Hills Author:Paul Engle
“Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches.” ShouldChildrenSoundChurchMinesBellsRapidsIowaCedarsChurch BellsSleighs Book:Prairie Christmas Source: Prairie Christmas
“There must be an alternative between Hollywood and New York, between those two places psychically as well as geographically. The University of Iowa tries to offer such a community, congenial to the young writer, with his uneasiness about writing as an honorable career, or with his excess of ego about calling himself a writer.” WritingTryingWellsTwoYoungCommunityCareersNew YorkCallingOffersEgoHollywoodUniversityAlternativesExcessHonorableIowaYoung WritersUneasiness Author:Paul Engle
