"Writers don't make any money at all. We make about a dollar. It is terrible. But then again we don't work either. We sit around in our underwear until noon then go downstairs and make coffee, fry some eggs, read the paper, read part of a book, smell the book, wonder if perhaps we ourselves should work on our book, smell the book again, throw the book across the room because we are quite jealous that any other person wrote a book, feel guilty about throwing the schmuck's book across the room because we secretly wonder if God in heaven noticed our evil jealousy, or worse, our laziness. We then lie across the couch facedown and mumble to God to forgive us because we are secretly afraid He is going to dry up all our words because we envied another man's stupid words. And for this, as I said before, we are paid a dollar."
Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz
OMG, I LOVE it. I am TOTALLY going to do all that once I'm published. Because I can. And I will call you up and make sure you are doing it too, because you will be pubslished as well ;p
ReplyDeletelol! love it! thanks for sharing, I hadn't ever heard that but..yea...spose thats all true!
ReplyDeleteThat is both hilarious and frightening. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteHahaha.. that's hilarious! I swear that just made my day :)
ReplyDeleteGod's probably a writer. He can relate. I say we can probably bi-pass the worry and spend our dollar on a portion of a drink. We can't afford the whole thing.
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