“Writing is the only hobby where people consider themselves a failure at it if they don’t become professional. My advice to writers– I’ve known a lot of writers who have that “I’m gonna write this book, and I’m gonna sell it, and I’m gonna be rich and famous” [attitude]. If they wrote it and sold it and were rich and famous, they would hit their base expectations and be merely satisfied. And instead, if they miss that, they are angry, bitter, and they grow increasingly twisted up inside, psychologically, and they’re really unhappy. Do you like it? Is it fun? Do you enjoy it? If you enjoy it, every time you write, you have completed something that has paid you off.”— Patrick Rothfuss, The Wednesday Club, 07/11/2018 (via mudkippy)
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