If you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing that a writer should be is--excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms. Without such vigor, he might as well be out picking peaches or digging ditches; God knows it would be better for his health.
I need this plastered in front of my face.
I need this plastered in front of my face.
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Date: 2009-01-31 01:10 pm (UTC)Have fun! :)
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Date: 2009-01-31 03:51 pm (UTC)