Chekhov's Mistress
Why Write?
I lifted this entirely from Dan Green’s site, The Reading Experience, because I love this (considering myself in the latter camp):
A great interview with Russell Banks conducted by Robert Birnbaum. Among the highlights:
There are people who want to be writers because they think writers are celebrated people in society. And they want the perks that go with all that. And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care. A much smaller number [laughs] than the other. But they are the ones that really do become writers. Because they love the process and they’ll participate in that process, without rewards for a decade or more before they begin to publish because they love the process. Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.
I guess I’ll have to make it over to Identity Theory and read the entire interview.
Read widely, think well, and write often.
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- Posted by: Bud Parr
- Date: January 21, 2005
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Song of Myself: Diary
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