Was trying to buy stamps online...
Jun. 15th, 2004 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
capri0mni... and I found a stamp for 3 ounce letters, honoring Edna Ferber. I had no idea who she was, so I looked her up (source below).
That search led me to the following quote. I think I like Ms. Edna Ferber!
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilirating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
Edna Ferber (1887-1968), U.S. writer. A Peculiar Treasure, ch. 1 (1939).
The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations is licensed from Columbia University Press. Copyright © 1993 by Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
(BTW, I was unable to buy stamps... whenever I tried to go to checkout, I was logged out, instead.... any idea why this might be?)
That search led me to the following quote. I think I like Ms. Edna Ferber!
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilirating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
Edna Ferber (1887-1968), U.S. writer. A Peculiar Treasure, ch. 1 (1939).
The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations is licensed from Columbia University Press. Copyright © 1993 by Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
(BTW, I was unable to buy stamps... whenever I tried to go to checkout, I was logged out, instead.... any idea why this might be?)
