Words I Wish I Wrote: A Collection of Writing That Inspired My Ideas - Hardcover

Fulghum, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060175605 ISBN 13: 9780060175603

Publisher: HarperCollins, 1997

Synopsis

The author shares the words of writers who have inspired his own work, presenting a thematically organized collection that encompasses the works of authors ranging from Jerry Garcia to Albert Camus to Beatrix Potter, accompanied by personal commentary onthe sources

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"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" MARK 8:36

"In the midst of winter, I found there was within me, an invincible summer." -- Albert Camus "You can count on how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed." -- Ken Kearsey ..".in the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart..." -- Gabriel Garc?a Marquez"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing" -- Edmund Burke"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole, world, and lose his own soul? -- Mark 8:36

About the Author:

Robert Fulghum has made his living as a ditchdigger, cowboy, IBM salesman, folksinger, parish minister, bartender, newspaper columnist, and philosopher. His previous books, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on it, Maybe (Maybe Not), Uh-Oh, From Beginning to End, and True Love, have sold more than fifteen million copies in twentyseven languages in ninety-three countries. He has four children and seven grandchildren. He lives with his wife, a family physician, on a houseboat in Seattle, Washington.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0060175605
• ISBN 13: 9780060175603
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 220