52 Years To Write A Book (And Notes Of Thanks)
The two questions I am most often asked as a book author are:
1- How long does it take to write a book?
2- Where do you get your ideas?
52 Years?
My answer to the first question depends on what I have in mind as my starting point. The questioner is usually thinking of the moment that I wrote the first paragraph. But there is a difference between writing a book and working on a book. I worked on each of my books, without being aware that I was doing so, for years before I plunked my butt in a chair to lay down the first words.
With A Thousand Eyes
A few lines from Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha have taken residence in my mind thanks to a comment from Dan Oestreich to a previous post. I guess I am supposed to pass the lines on.
Tenderly, he looked into the rushing water, into the transparent green, into the crystal lines of its drawing, so rich in secrets. Bright pearls he saw rising from the deep, quiet bubbles of air floating on the reflecting surface, the blue of the sky being depicted in it.
