As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart.

Edward Abbey
As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're...
As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're...
As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're...
As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're...
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As for writing, that's a cruel hard business. Unless you're very lucky it'll break your heart. In the 18th century, the British writer Samuel Johnson said this. He was a writer and a writer's life can be very difficult.

The words have stuck with us ever since because they speak the truth about how the writing business can break a person. Writing is a cruel hard business and it will break your heart unless you're very lucky.

Source: Postcards From Ed: Dispatches And Salvos From An American Iconoclast

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