As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare. - Ron Rash

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He told us about Christ's disciples being fisherman, and we were left to assume. . . that all great fishermen on the Sea of Galilee were fly fisherman and that John, the favorite, was a dry-fly fisherman.

Ron Rash

As I get older I find myself thinking it all begins with Shakespeare.

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I think I had a particular moment when I was 15 years old. I read 'Crime and Punishment,' and that book just, I think, more than any other book made me want to be a writer, 'cause it was the first time that I hadn't just entered a book, but a book had entered me.

Book, Thinking, Years, Time, Cause

I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.

Writing, Different, Diaries, Dictionaries

I live in Cullowhee, North Carolina. That's where I teach, at Western Carolina University. That region is where my family has lived for a long time and that region is my landscape.

Cullowhee, Landscape, Long, North Carolina, Time, Western

I 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.

Real, Rocks, Rivers, Foot, Beginning

Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place.

Writing, Taught, Regions, Faulkner, Came, Write

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Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board.

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