God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people’s secrets we want to know – it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years.
– August Strindberg
Tag: books
Quotable 316
Writers; yes you should write what you know. But you can change what you know at any point. Talk to different people. Read different books.
– Jay Stringer
Quotable 47
Has there ever been a great writer who did not spend a childhood in books?
– Peter Ackroyd
Pen to Paper: Books about Writing
Quotable 6
If your love is writing books, that’s a passion that’s way outside of the umbrella of income.
– Walter Mosely
Haiku on 42nd St.
Richard Hunt of Clerisy Press found catsignal one day and in the spirit of sharing haiku most graciously sent me a copy of Haiku on 42nd St. You can read about this little book and how it came to be at Clerisy’s site. But I will tell you this: it’s wonderful.
The photography and the colors pop from the pages. After absorbing the haiku themselves, it was (and still is) fun to go back and examine each photo carefully, looking at all the shapes and designs. I was pleased to recognize two or three of the haiku from other collections, and those I didn’t recognize gave me more poets to watch for.
Treat yourself to your own copy of Haiku on 42nd St. today.
And thank you again, Richard.