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)

Off to saw wood.

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