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You Had Better Give a **** - 906 Quotes By, For, and About the Writer (Paperback)
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You Had Better Give a **** - 906 Quotes By, For, and About the Writer (Paperback)
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No matter how intense or honest or pure our desire to become a
writer it ultimately comes down to having talent, developing your
particular level of talent, or giving up. And it doesn't matter
what the public is reading, what Oprah is recommending, or how you
feel. If you are a writer you'll start writing that book and you'll
finish it. Then whether it sells or not--whether it's published or
not--you'll finish another. And another. And another. If you don't
you're not a writer. This isn't a particularly comfortable or
encouraging proposition and the fact that it might result in a
lifetime of toil that ends in debt and obscurity doesn't, however
unfair, make it any less true. When I seriously considered quitting
writing I realized the crater left behind could never be filled
with familial bliss, money, Irish whiskey, or vacations. In the end
it doesn't matter if my books are bestsellers or
any-kind-of-sellers; it only matters that they be written. Anything
less would be a waste of my life. God help me, I'm a writer. And,
God help me again, reading little nuggets of wisdom from other
writers are sometimes the only thing that gets me to scribble
another word, sentence, or paragraph. Pathetic, but here are 906 of
my favorites.
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