Write without pay until somebody offers pay; if nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.

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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.

We are entering a golden age of journalism. I do think there has been horrible frictional costs but I think when we look back at what has happened, I look at my backpack that is sitting here, and it contains more journalistic firepower than the entire newsroom that I walked into 30 to 40 years ago. It’s connected to the cloud, I can make digital recordings of everything that I do, I can check in real time if someone is telling me the truth, I have a still camera that takes video that I can upload quickly and seamlessly.

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What a brilliant outlook on journalism! Great find, Mel

David Carr reflects on the future of journalism. (via nprfreshair)