Always be reading. Go to the library. There’s magic in being surrounded by books. Get lost in the stacks. Read bibliographies. It’s not the book you start with, it’s the book that book leads you to.
Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, “Nothing is more important than an unread library.”
Don’t worry about doing research. Just search.
– excerpted from Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative, by Austin Kleon [buy | borrow]
Jack Kerouac reading, ca. 1950’s
via Everett Collection
Digging into Joyce Johnson’s The Voice is All: The Lonely Victory of Jack Kerouac [buy | borrow]. Also started Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes [buy | borrow]. Mad juxtaposition of stories.
It’s Friday…what are you reading this weekend?
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September 28, 2012 at 9:46 am
namelessneed
That would the fairly recent Japanese fiction, “Kafka On The Shore”
September 28, 2012 at 9:51 am
lazarusdodge
And that looks like an intriguing pick! – J.
September 29, 2012 at 3:09 pm
splendid
that would be Bill Bryson”s A Walk in the Woods, I am reading slow because I don’t want it to end, is that crazy?
September 29, 2012 at 4:41 pm
lazarusdodge
Good choice! Read this several years and know exactly what you’re describing – wouldn’t say it had the most exciting plot…if you can call it that…but I couldn’t put it down.
Wouldn’t try to undertake that kind of adventure myself…but glad I “walked” along afterwards!
– J.