Ron Rash

North Carolina · connected South Carolina · born or raisedBorn 1953

American poet, short story writer and novelist

Born in Chester
Studied at Clemson University
Studied at Crest High School
Worked in Clemson
Worked at Western Carolina University

Quotations with a citation

I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.

[O]ne thing I found about writing fiction is that if you don't get the small things right the reader won't believe the big lie.

[I]t was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book had entered me.

[H]ow landscape is very often destiny, that the landscape a human being grows up in has an incredible impact on the way he or she perceives reality

[T]he mountains are always reminding us of how fleeting our lives are, our smallness. It can also work in a more positive way in the sense of almost a womb-like protectiveness.