I've heard before this spoken of fake writers and posers- "they don't like to write, just to have written. Unfortunately I've often thought this was true of me, and it's made me wonder about my future.
But in today's bit of procrastination I came across this...
"The writer who loves his work is not of a sordid nature. The check an editor sends him for his story is the smallest part of his reward. his has been the joy to create, to see a thought take form and amplify under the spell of his inspiration. A joy which is scarcely less is to know that his work has been appreciated by others."
It captures the joy of having written. It is a struggle to write until inspiration hits and then it is so much more rewarding than anything else I could have spent time doing.
"Writing is it's own reward... To the writer the joy of the work is something infinitely higher, finer and more satisfying than its pecuniary value to the editor who buys it. Material success, of course, is a necessity...But this is also true: A writer even of modest talent will have material success in a direct ratio with the joy he finds in his work!-Because, brother of the pen, when [he] takes pleasure in an effort, then that effort attracts merit inevitably..."
Both quotes from- The Fiction Factory, John Milton Edwards
