In honor of my friend Ron Gullekson‘s blog post, “Ten Rumors I’d Like To Start,” let me offer my bookish version: Continue reading
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My last post was a collection of quotes from Stephen King’s On Writing, all about his wife Tabitha and the critical role she plays in his phenomenal success.
I am not sure how, but one of my favorite anecdotes from the book slipped under my radar when I decided to write a piece on it.
It’s odd, actually, because this was the part of the memoir where I felt the sharp pang of jealousy that made me realize that Tabitha was the key insight I was going to take away from the book.
So, in the interest of being thorough, here’s my final excerpt from On Writing
I was hesitant to read Stephen King’s On Writing
But, I did finally relent, and one key theme in the memoir struck me as more insightful than anything I had read about writing for years. In fact, I think it merits a book of its own. I am talking about the critical influence of people other than the writer in the success of that writer. For King, the most important other-than-the-writer person is his wife Tabitha.
No matter how important individual determination might be, for a social creature like Homo sapiens there is no such thing as individual success. All success is cooperative. There would be no Stephen King (as we know him) if there were no Tabitha King.
So, today I want to share what I feel are the most revealing and inspiring quotes on Tabitha from On Writing. Continue reading
I have a Top Book of 2010. Yes, a book. Singular.
I was considering posting a Top Books of 2010 list. After all, that’s what people do. The New York Times did it, Publishers Weekly did it, The Daily Beast did it, The Huffington Post did it, you get the idea.
And, if all these guys are jumping on the literary soap box, so would I. And I eventually did (see the bold, red text below) but not in the way I expected.