I am rereading Let's Take the Long Way Home, by Gail Caldwell, which I read and loved last month ( I am reading at least one book a month during 2012, will post more about this later). This time around I want to record the passages and ideas that touched me in this beautiful memoir about two writers, their dogs, and their lives together.
ON FRIENDSHIP
Opening line of book:
"It's an old, old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too." (pg. 3)
"Finding Caroline was like placing a personal ad for an imaginary friend, then having her show up at your door funnier and better than you had conceived." (pg. 13)
ON WRITERS
" If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they crave." (pg. 17)
"I had known enough writers in my life, including myself, to recognize this trait: What made it to the page was never the whole story, but rather the writer's version of the story--a narrative with its creator in full control." (pgs. 20-21)
Get why I'm rereading it?
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