Words I Wish I Wrote: A Collection of Writing That Inspired My Ideas
Robert Fulghum, the part-time Unitarian minister whose gentle and humorous stories have made him a bestselling author many times over (beginning withAll I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten), pays tribute to the writers who inspiredhiminWords I Wish I Wrote. He confesses that at one particularly low moment in the late '50s, he was dredged up from the Slough of Despond by reading the worksAlbert Camus, whose gaze over a deeper abyss gave Fulghum hope. It was that experience that led Fulghum to seek out writings with uplifting messages. The result is this compilation of brief passages from the likes ofWallace Stevens("After the final no there comes a yes"),Tom Robbins("Real courage is risking one's clichés"), and Buckminster Fuller ("God is a verb").--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.