You stole my story and something's got to be done about it.
Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans. As a culture, we want cash on the barrel head. We want writing to earn dollars and sense so that it makes sense to us. We have a conviction__hich is naive and misplaced__hat being published has to do with being __ood_ while not being published has to do with being __mateur._ ...__id you write today?___es.___hen you__e a writer today.__t would be lovely if being a writer were a permanent state that we could attain to. It__ not, or if it is, the permanence comes posthumously.A page at a time, a day at a time, is the way we must live our writing lives. Credibility lies in the act of writing. That is where the dignity is. That is where the final __redit_ must come from.
The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life
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Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans. As a culture, we want cash on the barrel head. We want writing to earn dollars and sense so that it makes sense to us. We have a conviction__hich is naive and misplaced__hat being published has to do with being __ood_ while not being published has to do with being __mateur._ ...__id you write today?___es.___hen you__e a writer today.__t would be lovely if being a writer were a permanent state that we could attain to. It__ not, or if it is, the permanence comes posthumously.A page at a time, a day at a time, is the way we must live our writing lives. Credibility lies in the act of writing. That is where the dignity is. That is where the final __redit_ must come from.
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