Walt Jr Quotes

WRITING GUIDES AND REFERENCES: A SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY The Artful Edit, by Susan Bell (Norton) The Art of Time in Memoir, by Sven Birkerts (Graywolf Press) The Writing Life, by Annie Dillard (Harper & Row) Writing with Power, by Peter Elbow (Oxford University Press) Writing Creative Nonfiction, edited by Carolyn Forché and Philip Gerard (Story Press) Tough, Sweet and Stuffy, by Walker Gibson (Indiana University Press) The Situation and the Story, by Vivian Gornick (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Intimate Journalism: The Art and Craft of Reporting Everyday Life, by Walt Harrington (Sage) On Writing, by Stephen King (Scribner) Telling True Stories, edited by Mark Kramer and Wendy Call (Plume) Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, by Anne Lamott (Pantheon) The Forest for the Trees, by Betsy Lerner (Riverhead) Unless It Moves the Human Heart, by Roger Rosenblatt (Ecco) The Elements of Style, by William Strunk, Jr., and E. B. White (Macmillan) Clear and Simple as the Truth, by Francis-Noel Thomas and Mark Turner (Princeton University Press) Word Court, by Barbara Wallraff (Harcourt) Style, by Joseph M. Williams and Gregory G. Colomb (Longman) On Writing Well, by William Zinsser (Harper & Row) The Chicago Manual of Style, by University of Chicago Press staff (University of Chicago Press) Modern English Usage, by H. W. Fowler, revised edition by Sir Ernest Gowers (Oxford University Press) Modern American Usage, by Wilson Follett (Hill and Wang) Words into Type, by Marjorie E. Skillin and Robert M. Gay (Prentice-Hall) To CHRIS, SAMMY, NICK, AND MADDIE, AND TO TOMMY, JAMIE, THEODORE, AND PENNY

Walt Whitman’s eye, that “the history of the world is the progress in the consciousness of freedom . . . The scheme is this: the oriental world only knew that one is free [that is, the ruler]; the Greek and Roman world knew that some are free [the ruling classes]; but we know that all men, in their true nature, are free,—that man, as man, is free.”2

Keep reading.” “Services, donations. Detective Kirkhalter leaves a wife, the former Sandra Wyzeck, and a son—” “There you go,” Banning interrupted. Lily stopped. Stared at the screen. “Walter Banning Kirkhalter Jr.” She read the name, then looked at Banning. Then back at the screen. “You’re kidding me.” “Nope. Yup.” Banning looked almost sheepish. “You can still call me Banning. My mother did, though it’s really my middle name. To her, the only Walt was my dad. I was still a part-time student at the time he was a Berwick town cop.” Lily pursed her lips, trying to calculate. “Are you saying—you were at Berwick College?” Lily waved his statement out the car window. “Come on.

HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUTS, n. Teenagers who are often too curious to stay in school. Notable ones include Richard Branson, Walt Disney, Mark Twain, Amancio Ortega, Ingvar Kamprad, John D. Rockefeller, Quentin Tarantino, Katy Perry, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Johnny Depp, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Robert Downey Jr., Marilyn Monroe, Jay-Z, Marlon Brando, Christina Aguilera, John Travolta, Courtney Love, Chris Rock, Frank Sinatra, Elton John, Eminem, David Bowie, Keanu Reeves, Jim Carrey, Whoopi Goldberg, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Kurt Cobain, Mark Wahlberg, Uma Thurman, Seth Rogan, Ray Charles, Al Pacino, Daniel Radcliffe, Diana (Princess of Wales), Robert De Niro, Phil Collins, George Harrison, Humphrey Bogart, Kevin Bacon, and many more.