The Writer’s Life

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Humiliation

“I have learned to live fairly comfortably with my writer’s humiliation, and have worn it like a second skin over my original thinner one. After all, humiliations are suffered by most writers most of the time. And — to express a thought about life in the real world, for once — a writer’s humiliations are chicken feed as compared with those endured by people who work for a living, and are grateful simply to make it home at night. Writers are already home.” 

—Roger Rosenblatt, author and journalist, “Please Turn to the Chapter on Obscurity . . . ,” The New York Times, 2014 (Thanks to alert WORDster Chip Scanlan)

  
• Editorial Comment: And already in their jammies.

PeezPix by Ted Pease 

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“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” —Tom Stoppard
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