John Berendt
John Berendt
John Berendtis an American author, known for writing the best-selling non-fiction book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which was a finalist for the 1995 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction...
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The first two years were taken up with dealing with the aftershocks of Midnight 's success, ... I began to think I should write another book.
anyone books comparison reasonable talk written
It probably will get to be a burden, ... But I can talk about it. It's a reasonable question, and anyone who has written two books is going to have the comparison made.
running book writing
Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up as a brief vignette. Give it color, include quotes and dialogue, shape it like a story with a beginning, middle and end—as if it were a short story or an episode in a novel. It's great practice. Do this while figuring out what you want to write a book about. The book may even emerge from within this running diary.
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If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is "What would you like to drink?
book products
The megaselling books by celebrities are not so much books as products.
said statements including
Nothing can be said, including this statement, that has not been said before.
two tears buckets
Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it.
cities people personality
For me, Savannah's resistance to change was its saving grace. The city looked inward, sealed off from the noises and distractions of the world at large. It grew inward, too, and in such a way that its people flourished like hothouse plants tended by an indulgent gardener. The ordinary became extraordinary. Eccentrics thrived. Every nuance and quirk of personality achieved greater brilliance in that lush enclosure than would have been possible anywhere else in the world.
loneliness thinking people
Someone once wrote that musicians are touched on the shoulder by God, and I think it's true. You can make other people happy with music, but you can make yourself happy too. Because of my music, I have never known loneliness and never been depressed.
numbers want sticks
Rule number one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.
love loneliness loving-others
Loneliness is not being alone, It's loving others to no avail.