Reflections on the Writing Life

Founded 26 March 2007

Sunday, May 11, 2025

Writing requires guts

 



Novelist Fannie Hurst said, “Writing is a chore. It cracks your bones and eats you, and yet it dominates you. You hate it while you love it.”


Related reading: Learn to Write by Writing; Pen-Pecked Dreamers; Writers on Writing


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