so-you-want-to-be-a-writer

if it doesn__ come bursting out of youin spite of everything,don__ do it.unless it comes unasked out of yourheart and your mind and your mouthand your gut,don__ do it.

unless it comes out ofyour soul like a rocket,unless being still woulddrive you to madness orsuicide or murder,don__ do it.unless the sun inside you isburning your gut,don__ do it.when it is truly time,and if you have been chosen,it will do it byitself and it will keep on doing ituntil you die or it dies in you.there is no other way.and there never was.