Welcome
Oliver Eade, author of 'Moon Rabbit', a winner of the Writers' & Artists' Yearbook New Novel Competition, 2007, and long-listed for the Waterstone's Children's Book Prize, 2008, published November 1st 2009 by Delancey Press (www.delanceypress.co.uk) ... now gone to 2nd edition.
See White Tiger and Pretty Flower at www.moon-rabbit.org.uk
Contact: olivereade'at'googlemail.com
I photograph because I see things outside myself that perhaps no one else will capture.
I write because there are things inside me that no one else can set free.
When I write I always have pictures in my head, and when I take photographs I see stories all around me.
The following pages show glimpses of my journeys into the worlds of writing and photography.
In 'Have You Read?', I expose some of my preferences for reading, for surely what a writer reads, over the years, must in some way help to define his or her writing. These are not reviews ... just examples of books that have moved or touched me in some way. Reading, too, is an intensely personal thing.
Oliver Eade, April 2009
‘Writing is not a job. It isn’t even a hobby. It’s an addiction for which there’s no cure …’
Gill Adams, playwright
‘To me photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as of a precise organisation of forms which give that event its proper expression.’
Henri Cartier-Bresson, Decisive Moment
‘If you can’t annoy somebody with what you write, I think there’s little point in writing.’
Kingsley Amis,The Radio Times, 1st May 1971
‘The photographer is like the cod which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.’
George Bernard Shaw, writer & photographer, Royal Photographic Society Catalogue, 1906
‘There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it … It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable, nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open … There is no satisfaction at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than others.’
Martha Graham, dancer and choreographer, to Agnes Mille
