About the Job of Writing (Amy Bloom)

There's no turning back [when you start writing]. It's good news and bad news. The good news is that if this is what you really want to do, you will do it. The bad news is that however much you may want to do this, nothing more may come of it than the writing itself, so you better really prize that process, because maybe other people will read it and maybe only your writing group will read it. It's very difficult for people to do. There's that great line from Red Smith: "There's nothing to writing. You just sit at the typewriter until drops of blood fall." There's nothing to it but to do it. If you must write, you will. If you're lucky, maybe it'll turn out that you don't have to write. Maybe you could just garden, or do ceramics, or something else. (from an interview with Amy Bloom by Sarah Ann Johnson)