Toe in the Water

Foote on Writing

Foote on Writing

Advice for writers is everywhere these days, so I feel no compunction in adding the following to the pile:

If someone were asking me whether they should become a writer, I would always say emphatically no, have absolutely nothing to do with it under any circumstance. And, if he would listen to that, he certainly should not have been a writer.
Shelby Foote