Ray BradburyI came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.
About This Quote
In this quote, both John James Audubon and Walt Whitman are saying that they didn’t set out to be writers. In fact, they didn’t even intend to draw or paint. They were just doing it. That is, until they realized that what they were doing was making them happy.
Once that realization came, they continued on and discovered their vocation. Both artists had thousands of pages of their work and countless hours of time dedicated to their craft before they realized that what they were doing was art. Neither of them knew exactly what it was that they were doing, but once they did, they pursued it with all the passion and energy available to them.
Source: Zen In The Art Of Writing
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