The Writer's Almanac from Thursday, February 6, 2014
The “dog chewing up the writer’s work” was borrowed for Jim Jarmusch’s film “Paterson,” when the poet’s diary is wrecked by a playful dog.
If you want to be a writer, write. That is the consistent message of The Writer’s Almanac.
I think perhaps more to the point: First read everything you can get your hands on, and the write, write, write.
The “dog chewing up the writer’s work” was borrowed for Jim Jarmusch’s film “Paterson,” when the poet’s diary is wrecked by a playful dog.
If you want to be a writer, write. That is the consistent message of The Writer’s Almanac.
I think perhaps more to the point: First read everything you can get your hands on, and the write, write, write.