Donald Harington Quotes

• Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.

  Donald Harington

  Believe, Past, Names

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• If you are destined to become a writer, you can't help it. If you can help it, you aren't destined to become a writer. The frustrations and disappointments, not even to mention the unspeakable loneliness, are too unbearable for anyone who doesn't have a deep sense of being unable to avoid writing.

  Donald Harington

  Disappointment, Loneliness, Writing

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• There is only one way to come into this world; there are too many ways to leave it.

  Donald Harington

  Life, World, Way

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• Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.

  Donald Harington

  Needs, Ghost

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• The Society of North American Magic Realists welcomes its newest, most dazzling member, Louis Maistros. His debut novel is a thing of wonder, unlike anything in our literature. It startles. It stuns. It stupefies. No novel since CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES has done such justice to New Orleans. If Franz Kafka had been able to write like Peter Straub, this might have been the result.

  Donald Harington

  Writing, New Orleans, Justice

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• If you can help it, you aren’t destined to become a writer.

  Donald Harington

  Helping, Destined, Ifs

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