Writing BLUE HIGHWAYS Quotes

“If there's anything that teaching teaches teachers, it's recognition of one's limits in reaching others. Call it the reach of the teach. For every writer, most of the world is deaf. Lucy once said, "Face it -it's a busy world out there." The bus travelers made clear the reader I hoped for was not just anyone but rather someone I'd like to travel with: tolerant, curious, sense of humored, lover of language, generous of spirit; in short, somebody I could learn from. In the Ghost, maybe that someone was the blue-roads rider -or was it a writer? Whoever it was, I had to address the reader as if a rider, for in the end, the final power in any story lies not in the mind of the teller but in the imagination of the listener.”
― William Least Heat-Moon, Writing BLUE HIGHWAYS: The Story of How a Book Happened

“Talent isn't the main requisite for capable writing - discipline is. And a little good luck.”
― William Least Heat-Moon, Writing BLUE HIGHWAYS: The Story of How a Book Happened