Real Writers Never Give Up

Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz offers some inspirational, powerful words about not giving up in this month’s Oprah magazine.I think they are good words to hear on a Monday, good words to get us started, as writers, on the first day of the week.This is my goal for the week: write EVERY day.Will you join me?

Here is an excerpt from the article:

“Because, in truth, I didn’t become a writer the first time I put pen to paper or when I finished my first book (easy) or my second one (hard).You see, in my view a writer is a writer not because she writes well and easily, because she has amazing talent, because everything she does is golden. In my view a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any signs of promise, you keep writing anyway.Wasn’t until that night when I was faced with all those lousy pages that I realized, really realized, what it was exactly that I am.”

Read the whole article here.

Here’s to a productive writing week…Ready, set, write.

“In the end, the best thing a writer can do for his society is to write as well as he can.”

-Gabriel Garcia Marquez