“If they’re meant to be writers, they will write. There’s nothing that can stop them. It may kill them. They may not be able to stand the terrible indignities, humiliations, privations, shocks that attend the life of an American writer. They may not. Yet they may have some sense of humor about it, and manage to survive.”
We live in a world where potential readership is growing, but actual readers are declining. Ah, the irony.
Well they read but it is now posts on facebook or twits on twitter and text messages. Not exactly the world of books I remember.
goes for us old ones as well…
That it does.
I love this insight into the desire to write, even for those of us who can’t hold a candle to T.W. ! 🙂
His work still shines.
Oh, indeed it does, long may it live!
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It is good advice, no?