A heartbreaking suck of staggering genius

Sep 19, 2008 16:38

"I've received quite a few rejection letters lately for various pieces of writing, and I'm beginning to suspect that my writing sucks. ... Friends and writing groups will offer positive suggestions to improve your writing, but who will tell you that you just need to put the pen down?"

Archer: The trouble is that you can read early Mark Twain and he sucks. You can read E.B. White drafts and they suck. And I just read how GB Shaw read his draft of Widower's Houses to William Archer (no relation) and the man went to sleep and started to snore. This proves that if you suck you are actually a genius. Do not deprive the world.

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