Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry, in the May/June Poets & Writers, on the need for writers to protect their creative side:
"The self that writes may need to be a delicate and protected creature, but the self that submits to magazines ought to be as tough as a rhino's butt."
Hmmmm...I will let others decide what I look like.
ReplyDeleteBut, I do agree with the overall idea. Maybe more so than ever before considering the shrinking marketplace.