![]() ![]() It’s horrible, exhausting, and worth every minute beating your head against your keyboard. I love having done it, can often hate doing it, but am even more miserable when I can’t build up the momentum to consistently be doing it. Writing certainly feels like an addiction a times. And yet it is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. For all one knows that demon is simply the same instinct that makes a baby squall for attention. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand. In order to relieve myself of some of the quotes, a relief valve for my brain so to speak, I’d thought I’d share stand outs. From that, I’ve accumulated a collection of his quotes on the life and love of writing during the reading, which are now spilling out of the pages of my journal. I recently read George Orwell’s “Why I Write,” a quasi autobiography that details his personal journey to becoming a writer. ![]()
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