Quote of the Day

While getting an early ball rolling on spring cleaning in my bedroom-cum-office, I took a moment to print and frame one of my all-time favourite quotes on writing, said by novellist/Pulitzer prize winner Richard Ford, which is this:

"Writing for a living is a privilege not a God-given right, as the opportunities are few though sought after by many. There are years of rejection which serve as a crude winnowing process, after which those left standing are those who simply must write."