Re: how to get published

rev. bob pigeon (sid-vicious@mindspring.com)
Mon, 27 Sep 1999 15:22:00 -0400

>I've been struggling with that itchy coiled python that is my writing
>career recently. Doesn't every writer? I pared it back to the fundamental
>question: why?Why bother? Why not be a dentist? A therapist? A hypnotist?
>Why any of it? And I realised that the only answer that you can truly build
>a career on is: because I want to. 

"the writer's only true responsibility is to his art.  He will be completely
ruthless if he is a good one.  He has a dream.  It anguishes him so much he
must get rid of it.  He has no peace until then."

                                -- William Faulkner