“Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.”
“How pitiful is an intelligence used only to make excuses to quieten the conscience.”
“I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book — that one book every writer carries within him -—
the image of his own soul.”
Lars Walker
October 8, 2012 at 10:32 AM
Getting books right. The purgatory of the calling. I can write a book in a year, but I don’t think it would be a very good book. In two years I can write a good book, but not my best. Give me five years, and I can probably do a book that will make people (a few people, anyway) gasp with delight. But at what point am I just procrastinating and indulging myself, letting my insecurities paralyze me?