I Think Professionalism Is Important, And Professionalism

It Took Me Years To Learn To Sit At My Desk For More Than Two Minutes At A Time, To Put Up With The Solitude And The Terror Of Failure, And The Godawful Silence And The White Paper.

Is There Not An Arabick Proverb Which Goes, 'no One Throws Stones At A Barren Tree'?

Keeping A Journal Implies Hope.

But We Should Ask The Question: Why Should A Writer Be More Than A Writer? Why Should A Writer Be A Guru? Why Are We Supposed To Be Psychiatrists? Isn't It Enough To Write And Tell The Truth? It's Not Like Telling The Truth Is Common. Writers Are The Earthworms Of Society. We Aerate The Soil. That's Enough.

Unhappiness Is Our Element. We Come To Believe We Can't Function Without It.