Ron Rash
Ron Rash
Ron Rash, an American poet, short story writer and novelist, is the Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western Carolina University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
CountryUnited States of America
book foundation needs
But nothing is solid and permanent. Our lives are raised on the shakiest foundations. You don't need to read history books to know that. You only have to know the history of your own life.
book thinking years
I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, 'cause it was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book had entered me.
moving book character
Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'. In Tess Lohan, Mary Costello has created one of the most fully realized characters in contemporary fiction. What a marvel of a book.
haunted might
I've always been haunted that he might have been.
century enjoyed journal medical research teach
I think one thing I enjoyed most was doing medical research for the doctor's journal because I really had to teach myself 19th century medicine.
boy shot took
They took a 12-year-old boy and took him out and shot him.
assumption
You can't make that assumption about 'we' being the losers.
family fought grow white
I think a lot of times when you grow up in the South, if you're white at least, you think your family fought Confederate.
looks hearing atrocities
The woman doesn't look up. It's as if she's deaf. Maybe she is. Maybe she's like the Cambodian women I've read about, the ones who witnessed so many atrocities that they have willed themselves blind. Maybe that's what you have to do sometimes to survive. You kill off part of yourself, your hearing or eyesight, your capacity for hope.
character goal world
One of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.
track mind fields
I wouldn't mind being a track and field coach.
writing taught regions
Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.
hands my-favorite luke
Cool-Hand Luke' is one of my favorite movies.
thinking
As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.