"Writing is Your Job"
Wednesday November 5, 2008
In honor of National Novel Writing Month (of which I am an accidental participant), I just wanted to share this great quote I have hanging on my desk. I picked it up from Irene Goodman Literary Agency.
Writing is your job, just like your postman has a job. He delivers the mail every day, rain or shine. Successful authors sit down and face that blank screen every day. You don’t actually have to do it every day, but you do have to do it on a firm schedule. If you write only when the muse strikes or when you feel like it, you will have a very hard time finishing a book.
Hi Allena –
Along the same line as your quote, I thought I would share one of my favorites:
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he’s staring out of the window.
- Burton Rascoe
Kim
Oh, I LOVE it!
I like this one and have it posted at my desk at work and home and on the fridge…
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn’t behave that way you would never do anything – John Irving