Anna

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Anna.

https://www.goodreads.com/redlightpress

The Bee Sting
Anna is currently reading
bookshelves: currently-reading
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Loading...
Paul Theroux
“But: all journeys were return journeys. The farther one traveled, the nakeder one got, until, towards the end, ceasing to be animated by any scene, one was most oneself, a man in a bed surrounded by empty bottles. The man who says, "I've got a wife and kids" is far from home; at home he speaks of Japan. But he does not know - how could he? - that the scenes changing in the train window from Victoria Station to Tokyo Central are nothing compared to the change in himself; and travel writing, which cannot but be droll at the outset, moves from journalism to fiction, arriving promptly as the Kodama Echo at autobiography. From there any further travel makes a beeline to confession, the embarrassed monologue in a deserted bazaar. The anonymous hotel room in a strange city...”
Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia

D.H. Lawrence
“There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself, you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.”
D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

David Foster Wallace
“Fiction’s about what it is to be a fucking human being.”
David Foster Wallace

Anthony Bourdain
“They're professionals at this in Russia, so no matter how many Jell-O shots or Jager shooters you might have downed at college mixers, no matter how good a drinker you might think you are, don't forget that the Russians - any Russian - can drink you under the table.”
Anthony Bourdain, A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines

Gregory Maguire
“Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realise that you've neutered the capacity of the term home to mean anything. [...] We don't get an endless number of orbits away from the place where meaning first arises, that treasure-house of first experiences. What we learn, instead, is that our adventures secure us in our isolation. Experience revokes our licence to return to simpler times. Sooner or later, there's no place remotely like home.”
Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

year in books
Briana
1,109 books | 77 friends

Rob
Rob
1,489 books | 164 friends

Vanessa...
1,146 books | 254 friends

Meghann
270 books | 133 friends

Ben Sti...
608 books | 87 friends

sarah
1,118 books | 179 friends

Jeremy
1,157 books | 122 friends

Jessica
924 books | 65 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Anna

Lists liked by Anna