I tend to write about people on the edge who are pushing things out from the edge but who are not necessarily big-ticket items. Lawrence Weschler More Quotes by Lawrence Weschler More Quotes From Lawrence Weschler When you're a kid, your first five or six years, you converge all the time. School is about training that out of you, especially universities. Lawrence Weschler you training time school Genetically, I have tons of musical background in my life. My mother's father was a famous Weimar-era composer, Ernst Toch. My father's mother was the head of the Vienna Conservatory's piano department. It all canceled out in my case. I'm completely hopeless in music. Lawrence Weschler music mother life father I am able to write musically about the visual. I can pick up tones, I can pick up themes. And I find visual art is a wonderful launching-off place. Lawrence Weschler i-am place i-can art I kind of write about visual art the way Roger Angell writes about baseball, which is to say, you're writing about life: it's a somewhat focused, limited terrain in which you write about everything. Lawrence Weschler you life way art
