Keeley Schroder | April Challenge
Writing prompts for every day in April
Day 16: A book or author you could read again and again
You’d think, for a British guy, I’d choose one of the great English classics, but having read many, including the most famous and celebrated, I never read one I felt I had to return to time and again.
But, Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and River, really gets into my soul.
In considering writing a memoir for my grandchildren, I worry about what message I’m leaving them. How truthful can a memoir be if there is so much shame in a life?
Every story begins with a first sentence, and of course this is true whether we are writing or reading.
That first sentence must be a gateway, and invitation for the reader to pass through. I cannot help but turn my creative observations toward the people who have in some way contributed or taken away from my life. Parentally, artistically, officially, good, bad, and indifferent. They are all, somehow, poured into the mix.
I connect to Thomas Wolfe.
Quote:
It is wrong to go on writing books and plays about American subjects using ideas and methods that we get abroad,’’ Thomas Wolfe announced. As his country’s self-appointed bard, he planned to compose a vast saga, using a distinctly American idiom and employing a uniquely American structure, that would capture ‘’the whole intolerable memory of America, its violence, savagery, immensity, beauty, ugliness, and glory.’’ But the three books of fiction Wolfe published during his lifetime fell far short of his ambitious goal, as did the three other volumes issued after his death in 1938. Clearly one of the central problems facing Wolfe scholars is to explain why his reach so far exceeded his grasp.
End quote.
Thomas Wolfe.
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