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Wednesday, November 1, 2006 |
Writing for Love
"Writing a book is like rearing children--willpower has very little to do with it. If you have a little baby crying in the middle of the night, and if you depend only on willpower to get you out of bed to feed the baby, that baby will starve. You do it out of love. Willpower is a weak idea; love is strong. You don't have to scourge yourself with a cat-o'-nine-tails to go to the baby. You go to the baby out of love for that particular baby. That's the same way you go to your desk. There's nothing freakish about it. Caring passionately about something isn't against nature, and it isn't against human nature. It's what we're here to do."
Annie Dillard. "To Fashion a Text." From Inventing the Truth: The Art and Craft of Memoir. Ed. Willaim Zinsser.
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