7 Quotes by Donald Harington

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.

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.

Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.

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

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.

There is a popular saying, “More rare than pine is the smell of pining” – which is rare indeed, for there are few pine trees in this part of the Ozarks.

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