W.H. Auden on Work Habits
May 16th, 2009 by me
Get up very early and get going at once, in fact, work first and wash afterwards.” – W.H. Auden
Posted in Meg's Posts, Quotes on Writing
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author of the national bestseller, The Wednesday Sisters, and the forthcoming The Four Ms. Bradwells (Ballantine, March 2011)
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- The All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published #15: Wordle-ing the Time AwaySeptember 6, 2010 in All-True Story of How a Novel Gets Published, Meg's Posts
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About 1st BOOKS: Stories of How Writers Get Started
If you think writers are born rather than made and brilliant writing is recognized immediately, those rejection slips for your novel—or story or nonfiction query, or (heaven help you) letter to your own mother—can seem a daunting thing. The truth is getting started as a writer takes hard work, persistence, and a bit of luck.