Donald Ray Pollock Quotes - Page 3

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• Religion can be a good thing, but basically the way I look at it is that it provides a moral code, common sense. But then people distort it and use it as an excuse to be a bully. It's sad, but that's the way it's worked for a several thousand years now.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  People, Common Sense, Bully

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• As for how I feel about any success I've had, I just feel extremely lucky. Writing is a tough racket, and there are a lot of writers out there better than me who can't seem to catch a break.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Writing, Lucky, Tough

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• It depends on what your dream might be, as to whether or not it's still possible when you're, say, fifty or sixty. You won't ever pitch for the big leagues, for example. But I believe anyone, regardless of age, can write if he or she is willing to do the work, and I'm talking about spending at least an hour or two at it almost every day for five to ten years.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Dream, Believe, Writing

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• One of the reasons I write about religion is due to my own envy of people who truly feel the presence of god in their lives, good souls who believe devoutly in a supreme being and an afterlife.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Good Life, Believe, Writing

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• It was really just the name that inspired me: Rainsboro. It's located near Rocky Fork State Park. I have probably driven through that little place a thousand times, but, in that weird way my mind works sometimes, one particular evening it just hit me the right way, I guess. Created a mood more than anything else. And then I started thinking about a woman and her young son who end up there.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Son, Thinking, Names

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• There are a lot of writers from the South who would probably have once figured they needed to go to New York to make it who have stayed closer to home - people like David Joy, Tom Franklin, Sheldon Lee Compton, Wiley Cash, Mark Powell, and Alex Taylor.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  New York, Home, People

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• I don't really think the outburst is recent; there have always been writers in Appalachia.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Thinking, Outburst, Appalachia

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• I look upon [writing about religion] as a nice way to get by in this precarious world, though I've never been able to do it myself.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Nice, Writing, Looks

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• I think my characters - well, at least a few of them - are hoping or searching for some kind of contact with god.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Character, Thinking, Kind

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• I really have no idea where the darkness comes from. Other writers have said that there are two subjects worth writing about, love and death; and since I'm a complete flop when it comes to love, I chose death. Too, maybe because of where I came from, I do find it easy to empathise with and write about certain groups of damaged or downtrodden people: the poor, the addicted.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Writing, People, Darkness

  Source: thequietus.com

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