SOME FAVORITE WORDS ABOUT WRITING
From Daily Rituals, How Artists Work, edited by Mason Curry

The writer Bernard Malamud: “You write by sitting down and writing. There’s no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he’s disciplined, doesn’t matter. If he or she is not disciplined, no sympathetic magic will help. The trick is to make time—not steal it—and produce the fiction. If the stories come, you get them written, you’re on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.”

I have read these words over and over again: “You write by sitting down and writing . . . the real mystery to crack is you.”

I am sitting down. I am working on cracking the mystery of me.

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