I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing?
Quote of the Day: Margaret Atwood
There’s no free lunch. Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but Âessentially you’re on your own. ÂNobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don’t whine.
Quote of the Day: Harold Ramis
I always claim that the writer has done 90 percent of the director's work.
Quote of the Day: Vincent van Gogh
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Quote of the Day: Paddy Chayefsky
Artists don't talk about art. Artists talk about work. If I have anything to say to young writers, it's stop thinking of writing as art. Think of it as work.
Quote of the Day: Stephen King
Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it’s work. … Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter of an abandoned neighborhood can stand for everything.
Quote of the Day: Harlan Ellison
People on the outside think there's something magical about writing, that you go up in the attic at midnight and cast the bones and come down in the morning with a story, but it isn't like that. You sit in back of the typewriter and you work, and that's all there is to it.