tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17085938.post2064389557280361724..comments2023-10-29T07:54:36.000+00:00Comments on georgiasam: Writing, Being a Writerputhwuthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05606399161863289851noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17085938.post-6711719074075702882010-07-05T15:06:21.591+01:002010-07-05T15:06:21.591+01:00Writers can be divided into three categories accor...Writers can be divided into three categories according to their ambitions:<br /><br />1. Those who want their books to become bestsellers and bring untold riches and fame.<br /><br />2. Those who want glowing reviews in the broadsheets and to live in squalor in some bohemian part of town.<br /><br />3. Those who write exclusively on the inside of public toilet doors, and generally want their readers to call a particular number for sex.<br /><br />Only the third category deserve any respect.SeƱor Bakernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17085938.post-9216819356481506282010-06-30T19:49:24.864+01:002010-06-30T19:49:24.864+01:00I think bohemia has got something to do with this,...I think bohemia has got something to do with this, encouraging people to be flaneurs. "Being' a poet seems like an enviable occupation, where you can just walk about the place twirling your cane. The odd haiku then is enough to keep your had in, and legitimate the cane-twirling.sean lysaghthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04775517970287151958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17085938.post-56999432084154518932010-06-30T19:08:58.837+01:002010-06-30T19:08:58.837+01:00About 1928, in one of the three genuinely funny jo...About 1928, in one of the three genuinely funny jokes that Punch has produced since the Great War, an intolerable youth is pictured informing his aunt that he intends to 'write'. 'And what are you going to write about, dear?' asks the aunt. 'My dear aunt,' says the youth crushingly, 'one doesn't write about anything, one just writes.' <br />from Orwell's Inside the Whale.Rogernoreply@blogger.com