Friday, October 27, 2006

More From Harry Whittington

From the same source as this comment below.

"I have the desire to write. I've never looked at writing as an easy job, or an escape. It was what I wanted to do. Sixteen years I worked eight hours a day at another job. I always found time to write. When I was reporting to work at 5 in the morning, sometimes I was writing until 1 A. M.

"While I was working at this other job, I managed to turn out novels, short stories, and novelettes. It was ten years after I started collecting rejection slips before I sold my first short story. I have boxes of stories written before that time, stories that never sold and never will. But I got something from them, facility, satisfaction and knowledge of the craft."

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