All great writers master the craft, but Crane—like Whitman, like Dickinson, like Hemingway, like Hugo, like Pope, like Voltaire, like Homer, like Kafka, like Woolf—had a touch of the divine; that unteachable it factor, and it is among the company of these writers where he lives forever in the pantheon of literary immortality.
“What I took from this book? Stephen King is not superman, and neither does the aspiring writer need to be. King makes it clear, writers are made in the trenches, and those who put their nose to the grindstone, and never let anything stop their writing, succeed.”
Few books can change you, teach you, and inspire you at the same time, but Haig’s The Midnight Library is one of those books.
This story had me drinking to through it, as it twisted and ripped at my heart, for I could not put it down.
He changed the world with words; he embodies the power of how a written thought can turn the wheels of history.
I loved the story; I am a huge history nerd, and I love her ability to retell classic literature through the modern medium of prose.