"... I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do-- the actual act of writing-- turns out to be the best part. Its like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward...
Ever since I was a little kid, I've thought that there was something noble and mysterious about writing, about the people who could do it well, who could create a world as if they were little gods or sorcerers. All my life I've felt that there was something magical about people who could get into other people's minds and skin, who could take people like me out of ourselves and then take us back to ourselves. And you know what? I still do." -Anne Lamott in her book Bird by Bird.
I did not feel the same way when I was a kid, only because the books I read that I loved so much made it all seem so easy. The authors of the books were so good at what they did, that they made the writing of it seem effortless. Now that I'm "all grown up", and have attempted creating various pieces of writing myself- whether it be articles, poems, song lyrics or fiction, - I have a HUGE appreciation for writers, for good writers. I admire what they do, how easy they make it seem, and yes, I agree, the ARE magical
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