Richard Brautigan Quote

Congratulations, I said. It's so wonderful to write a book. I walked all the way here, she said. I started at midnight. I would have gotten here sooner if I weren't so old. Where do you live? I said. The Kit Carson Hotel, she said. And I've written a book. Then she handed it proudly to me as if it were the most precious thing in the world. And it was. It was a loose-leaf notebook of the type that you find everywhere in America. There is no place that does not have them. There was a heavy label pasted on the cover and written in broad green crayon across the label was the title: GROWING FLOWERS BY CANDLELIGHT IN HOTEL ROOMS BY MRS. CHARLES FINE ADAMS