A Writer Is...

February 2, 2009 at 4:21 pm by Blair

From Thomas Mann: "A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people."

Also, there are many variations on this quote, from Twain to Thoreau to Nietzsche, but I think Blaise Pascal said it first: "I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”

Alright, that's enough chicken soup for the writer's soul - get back to that thought leadership piece. If it were easy, everybody would do it (well.)

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