Write without pay until somebody offers pay; if nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.
—
Mark Twain in
Advice to Writers, “a compendium of quotes, anecdotes, and writerly wisdom from a dazzling array of literary lights,” including
Kurt Vonnegut,
Stephen King,
F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Charles Bukowski, and more. (via
curiositycounts)