"WRITERS ARE GREAT LOVERS. THEY FALL IN LOVE WITH OTHER WRITERS.
Click on a book for great reviews "Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened “The writer is odd from day one and in the course of pursuing this maddening profession becomes distinctly odder… "What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition "Every man's memory is his private literature."-Aldous Huxley
THAT'S HOW THEY LEARN TO WRITE. THEY TAKE ON A WRITER, READ EVERYTHING BY HIM OR HER, READ IT OVER AGAIN UNTIL THEY UNDERSTAND HOW THE WRITER
MOVES,PAUSES, AND SEEES. THAT'S WHAT BEING A LOVER IS:
STEPPING OUT OF YOURSELF, STEPPING INTO SOMEONE ELSE'S SKIN."-Natalie Goldberg
and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score,
you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men
have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now.
Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to.
Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you.
It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education.
It's history. It's poetry."--from CATCHER IN THE RYE
It is not unusual for a successful writer—your favorite, the one you think of as full of sunshine, wisdom and laughter—to spend great portions of his or her life in a state of fury,
hideously disappointed, or even raving mad…
for a writer it is almost essential to pursue a solitary passion in the open air.” –Paul Theroux
of the man who wrote it.--E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951
