Re: how to get published
citycabn (citycabn@gateway.net)
Tue, 28 Sep 1999 08:48:00 -0700
-Camille quotes:
>>`I do think that the quality which makes a man want to write and be read
is
>essentially a desire for self exposure and is masochistic. Like one of
>those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the
>street'
> -- James Jones
Well, maybe Henry Miller. :)
>and my old favourite:
>
>`Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread
>its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would
>die if you were forbidden to write'
> -- Rainer Marie Rilke.
*Yes*, I approve of this one but try the later letters. Rilke becomes
*Rilke* circa 1906 and then has left only 20 years to do it. (And if it
is not a typo, it is *Maria*.)
>Ahh. I feel much better about my vocation now.
Not *vocation*--didn't you read my post of Seymour's letter to Buddy--*my
religion*. :)
--Bruce
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