Name: Tess
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Writing Thought of the Day
From Paul Auster's Hand to Mouth, which I'm currently reading: "Becoming a writer is not a 'career decision' like becoming a doctor or a policeman. You don't choose it so much as get chosen, and once you accept the fact that you're not fit for anything else, you have to be prepared to walk a long, hard road for the rest of your days."
posted by Tess | 3:31 PM
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Although in Paul Auster's case, you get chosen to be a writer who runs into himself on the street while investigating the murder of one of his own characters who also happened to be a screenwriter working on a movie about you.
*sigh* Paul Auster!
get that woman a glass of water!
Makes it sound like joining a convent, and I have the same response-- but how do i *know*?!
if you have doubt, does that mean you have not been chosen?
says the girl who finally got her official rejection letter, after the post office lost it.
yes, i got rejected bya publisher and then i got rejected by the post office.
it was a hard weekend.
me
Naw... if you're still plugging on regardless, then you know...
Kaela said what I was going to say.... If you're still doing it even after everyone else has grown up and started doing practical things, you're probably not going to quit.
In fact, I would say that it's not really about being "chosen" (which implies a person or entity doing the choosing) but about being born with a sort of disorder that compels you to keep putting words on paper (or onscreen) even when there's no immediate reward.
my first reaction to this post was the word "vocation"
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