on writing

We all have time to write. We have time to write

the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a

dead end, to scribble a few words, to write for the

hell of it instead of for the perfect and polished result.

The obsession with time is really an obsession

with perfection. We want enough time to write

perfectly. We want to write with a net under ourselves,

a net that says we are not foolish spending our time

doing something that might not pay off. When we write from love,

when we let ourselves steal minutes as gifts to ourselves,

our lives become sweeter, our temperaments become sweeter.

-Julia Cameron

The Right to Write