On Writing
“I go to the library, and I open my laptop, and I sit there, regardless of whether or not I feel like it. I gave a reading at a high school the other day, and one of the students asked, ‘what do you do when you don’t feel inspired?’, and I said ‘I’ve never in my life felt inspired, it’s not a question of inspiration.’ It’s a question of this mundane, or this seemingly mundane act of will. I just go , and I’ve committed myself to this project of trying to be honest, and it’s not like a glorious reveation, it’s an incredibly difficult, frustrating, self-deprecating act.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer
He is not my favorite but this is just so, so true.
