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I said, 'Yes theres a lot to look a head to. Like croaking iron at Widders Dump. We do the croaking and they get the iron.'He said, 'Riddley theres other things to do as wel.'I said, 'Yes and they all...

Russell Hoban

I said, 'Yes theres a lot to look a head to. Like croaking iron at Widders Dump. We do the croaking and they get the iron.'He said, 'Riddley theres other things to do as wel.'I said, 'Yes and they all...

I think of the turtles swimming steadily against the current all the way to Ascension. I think of them swimming through all that golden-green water over the dark, over the chill of the deeps and the j...

Russell Hoban

I think of the turtles swimming steadily against the current all the way to Ascension. I think of them swimming through all that golden-green water over the dark, over the chill of the deeps and the j...

About Author
Russell Conwell Hoban (February 4, 1925 – December 13, 2011) was an American writer. His works span many genres, including fantasy, science fiction, mainstream fiction, magical realism, poetry, and children's books.
He lived in London from 1969 until his death.

I was on South Bank one day by the Royal Festival Hall. It was a sunny day with a bright blue sky. I was looking up at a train crossing the Hungerford Bridge. Through the train I could see the sky suc...

Russell Hoban

I was on South Bank one day by the Royal Festival Hall. It was a sunny day with a bright blue sky. I was looking up at a train crossing the Hungerford Bridge. Through the train I could see the sky suc...

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them any more.

Russell Hoban

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them any more.

Seed of the littleSeed of the wyldSeed of the berning isHart of the chyld . . .Out goes the candlOut goes the liteOut goes my storyAnd so Good Nite

Russell Hoban

Seed of the littleSeed of the wyldSeed of the berning isHart of the chyld . . .Out goes the candlOut goes the liteOut goes my storyAnd so Good Nite

Jachin-Boaz was at the age called middle life, but he did not believe that he had as many years ahead of him as he had behind him.

Russell Hoban

Jachin-Boaz was at the age called middle life, but he did not believe that he had as many years ahead of him as he had behind him.

Tags: middle aged

How was I to be a scientist, father Lion?' Science is knowing. What could I have known? Others always did the knowing, knew what was in me, what should come out of me, what was best for me. I didn't k...

Russell Hoban

How was I to be a scientist, father Lion?' Science is knowing. What could I have known? Others always did the knowing, knew what was in me, what should come out of me, what was best for me. I didn't k...

Tags: self knowledge

Yes thats what I done you sorry sods I over the fents and off with the dogs...

Russell Hoban

Yes thats what I done you sorry sods I over the fents and off with the dogs...

A frightening thought had been growing in me. I'd always assumed that I was the central character in my own story but now it occurred to me that I might in fact be only a minor character in someone el...

Russell Hoban

A frightening thought had been growing in me. I'd always assumed that I was the central character in my own story but now it occurred to me that I might in fact be only a minor character in someone el...

Who can know anybody?' said the bookshop owner. 'Every person is like thousands of books. New, reprinting, in stock, out of stock, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, rubbish. The lot. Different every day....

Russell Hoban

Who can know anybody?' said the bookshop owner. 'Every person is like thousands of books. New, reprinting, in stock, out of stock, fiction, non-fiction, poetry, rubbish. The lot. Different every day....

Tags: knowledge of people

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives bu...

Russell Hoban

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives bu...

Tags: alone, men, know

Seeds blow in the wind and what is earf but a deadness with life growing out of it?

Russell Hoban

Seeds blow in the wind and what is earf but a deadness with life growing out of it?

There were no lions any more. There had been lions once. Sometimes in the shimmer of the heat on the plains the motion of their running still flickered on the dry wind — tawny, great, and quickly gone...

Russell Hoban

There were no lions any more. There had been lions once. Sometimes in the shimmer of the heat on the plains the motion of their running still flickered on the dry wind — tawny, great, and quickly gone...

Have you paused to consider that there is no way out? Each way out of one situation necessarily being the way into another situation.

Russell Hoban

Have you paused to consider that there is no way out? Each way out of one situation necessarily being the way into another situation.

Sometimes I think that this whole thing, this whole business of a world that keeps waking itself up and bothering to go on every day, is necessary only as a manifestation of the intolerable. The intol...

Russell Hoban

Sometimes I think that this whole thing, this whole business of a world that keeps waking itself up and bothering to go on every day, is necessary only as a manifestation of the intolerable. The intol...

Eusa 13.Eusa was angre he was in rayj & he kep pulin on the Littl Man the Addoms owt strecht arms. The Littl Man the Addom he begun tu cum a part he cryd, I wan tu go I wan tu stay. Eusa sed, tel mor....

Russell Hoban

Eusa 13.Eusa was angre he was in rayj & he kep pulin on the Littl Man the Addoms owt strecht arms. The Littl Man the Addom he begun tu cum a part he cryd, I wan tu go I wan tu stay. Eusa sed, tel mor....

Lots of noise but behind the hiss of purple rain the silence is cruising like a shark.

Russell Hoban

Lots of noise but behind the hiss of purple rain the silence is cruising like a shark.

Am I doomed? Flashing darkness is pretty much the same as flashing light really. Fear isn’t at all the same as courage but after a certain point perhaps being afraid of everything is the same as being...

Russell Hoban

Am I doomed? Flashing darkness is pretty much the same as flashing light really. Fear isn’t at all the same as courage but after a certain point perhaps being afraid of everything is the same as being...

Tags: fear

Love me or I will kick you very hard.

Russell Hoban

Love me or I will kick you very hard.

Oh, yes, said Mother, you may be sure that there will always be plenty of chocolate cake around here.

Russell Hoban

Oh, yes, said Mother, you may be sure that there will always be plenty of chocolate cake around here.