CULTURE
3:51 PM PDT 07/29/2020
by
Lexy Perez
“Two years ago I mustered the courage to take all those newspapers to solitary confinement just to see what I had and came back with a book,” the Oscar winner announced Wednesday.
Matthew McConaughey is ready to take readers for a walk with his first book, Greenlights
The Oscar winner went to social media on Wednesday to announce the publication of his next book, Green lights (Crown Publishing), inspired by his personal writings that he has done throughout his life.
“Ever since I learned to write, I’ve been keeping a journal. Writing everything that turned me on, turned me off, made me laugh, made me cry, and wondered what kept me awake at night,” McConaughey said. .
“Two years ago I mustered the courage to take all those diaries to solitary confinement just to see what I had and came back with a book,” he explained before revealing a physical copy of his next book, which has a white-portrait of the actor in it. cover page.
The actor said he chose to name his book. Green lights because “it is a story about how I have and we can all catch more of them in this life we are living.” “We don’t like red and yellow lights because they take away our time. When we realize that they all turn green, it is when they reveal their rhyme. It is when life is a poem and we begin to get what we want and what we want ” I need at the same time, “he said.
Are you enlightened #GreenlightsBook available now to preorder. information at https://t.co/WgBBklW8LD – For sale 10.20.20 pic.twitter.com/6rwwqPL7rq
– Matthew McConaughey (@McConaughey) July 29, 2020
In a statement about the book, McConaughey describes it as “an album, an album, a story from my life so far.” “These are fifty years of my vision and my visions, felt and deciphered, cold and shameful. Thank you, truths and beauties of brutality. Get away with it, get up to mischief and get wet while trying to dance among the raindrops.” said.
“Fortunately, it’s a medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirins instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again and laughing through tears.”
Green lights it will be the actor’s “love letter to life”.
The book will be released on October 20, 2020 and is available to preorder.
