It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start
Ron RashOne of my goals is to allow readers to see my characters and the world they inhabit as vividly as possible.
Ron RashI think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.
Ron RashI don't even have a choice. Rachel thought how that was pretty much true of everything now, that you got one choice at the beginning but if you didn't choose right, and she hadn't, things got narrow real quick. Like trying to wade a river, she thought. You take a wrong step and set your foot on a wobbly rock or in a drop-off and you're swept away, and all you can do then is try to survive.
Ron Rash