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WILLIAM FAULKNER ~ I’M A FAILED POET

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“I’m a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can’t and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing that, only then does he take up novel writing.”

—William Faulkner

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MARCEL PROUST ~ CHILDHOOD AND BOOKS

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“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.”

Marcel Proust

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Books and Happiness

BOOKS AND HAPPINESS

  “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy books and that’s kind of the same thing.” Anonymous Girl Reading

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW ~ THE VALUE OF ART

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“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
George Bernard Shaw

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INGEBORG BACHMANN ~ A LOST SENSE OF BELONGING SOMEWHERE

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“She wondered all the same how much they really had to say to one another, given that they had only this city in common and a similar way of talking, the same intonation, perhaps she’d just wanted to believe after that third whiskey on the roof garden at the Hilton that he would give her back something she’d lost, a missing taste, an intonation gone flat, that ghostly feeling of home, though she was no longer at home anywhere.”
― Ingeborg Bachmann, Simultan: Erzählungen

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VLADIMIR NABOKOV ~ A GOOD BOOK

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“Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations”

Vladimir Nabokov

Photograph of a young Nabokov with butterfly doodles by himself.

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EDITH WHARTON ~ LONELINESS

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“The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, short story writer, and designer. She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1927, 1928 and 1930.

Winner of the 1921 Pulitzer Prize, The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s masterful portrait of desire and betrayal during the sumptuous Golden Age of Old New York, a time when society people “dreaded scandal more than disease.”

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TOLSTOY ~ MEN ARE LIKE RIVERS…

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“One of the most widespread superstitions is that every man has his own special, definite qualities; that a man is kind, cruel, wise, stupid, energetic, apathetic, etc.
Men are not like that . . . Men are like rivers; the water is the same in each, and alike in all; but every river is narrow here, is more rapid there, here slower, there broader, now clear, now cold, now dull, now warm. It is the same with men. Every man carries in himself the germs of every human quality and sometimes one manifests itself, sometimes another, and the man often becomes unlike himself—while still remaining the same man.”
― Leo Tolstoy

Only known color photograph of the writer, taken at his Yasnaya Polyana estate in 1908 by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

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LEO TOLSTOY ~ SPRING

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“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912)
Spring Flowers
Oil on panel

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ANAIS NIN ~ WHY DO WE WRITE?

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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anaïs Nin

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VIRGINIA WOOLF ~ COUNTING UP

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“Often on a wet day I begin counting up; what I’ve read and what I haven’t read.” 
Virginia Woolf,  Between the Acts

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