Loved this: http://tumblr.austinkleon.com/post/17609287179
In his Autobiography, William Carlos Williams recounts what led him to pursue medicine as a career:
No one was ever going to be in a position to tell me what to write,
and you can say that again. No one, and I meant no one (for money) was
ever (never) going to tell me how or what I was going to write. That was
number one…
I wasn’t going to make any money by writing. Therefore I had to
have a means to support myself…for I didn’t intend to die for art nor to
be bedbug food for it…
I feel the same way about it, although I don't aspire to write great works. But I spent my time as a freelance writer and being dependent on an audience is so much less fun than writing what you love and hoping someone else will find something in it to love as well.
Found here: http://amygarvey.tumblr.com/post/17655192147/austin-kleon-william-carlos-williams-on-the-freedom-of
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