Ron Carlson
Ron Carlson
Ron Carlsonis an American novelist and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
amplified life
I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life.
believe changed good shown substitute teachers teaching technology
I believe in teaching as a real job. I don't think it's a substitute for anything else. It's been shown to me that teachers can help, and the writing today is just as good as it was when I started out. Technology hasn't changed that.
book men grace
The men and women, the weapons, the deerhunt all make a huge and fragile danger in John Bolger's novel The Hunters. There is care and harm in this book and all written with felicitous and steady grace.
writing my-own
I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.
heart tolerance stories
The literary story is a story that deals with the complicated human heart with an honest tolerance for the ambiguity in which we live.
stones idolatry concepts
Idolatry is not simply worshiping a stone image; idolatry is any concept of God that reduces Him to less than who He really is.
secret crafts rooms
The big secret is the ability to stay in the room.
rooms persons
The writer is the person who stays in the room.
naked savages
Get down, get naked, get savage.
moon keys long
Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.
college taught-us frogs
It never ceases to amaze us that when we were in kindergarten they taught us that a frog turning into a prince was a nursery fairy tale, but when we got to college they told us that a frog turning into a prince was science.
atheist order impossible
It is philosophically impossible to be an atheist, since to be an atheist you must have infinite knowledge in order to know absolutely that there is no God. But to have infinite knowledge, you would have to be God yourself. It's hard to be God yourself and an atheist at the same time!
school frogs taught
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!