Ron Carlson
Ron Carlson
Ron Carlsonis an American novelist and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
float graduating mourning novel promise seems
My first novel was called 'Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald,' about the difficulties of graduating from college, the longing and mourning you feel when all your promise seems to float away.
aggregate experience life
Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.
amplified life
I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life.
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!
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!
moon keys long
Key to all fiction, long or short, is to remember that the wolfman did not want the moon.
naked savages
Get down, get naked, get savage.
rooms persons
The writer is the person who stays in the room.
secret crafts rooms
The big secret is the ability to stay in the room.
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.
writing my-own
I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not.
attention empathy fire gets hard hone men personal simple start sustaining takes talking work
Writing a book is very personal. It's a very personal relationship. A book will start with something as simple as two men talking about work. That gets the fire going. Sustaining that fire is the hard work. It takes attention and empathy to hone the characters.