MARY GABLE

This week on the new book industry site Bookish, Elizabeth Gilbert explains why it’s awesome to be a writer. I couldn’t agree with her more.

I can honestly say it’s the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and that is a profoundly rare human privilege…You don’t have to wear a nametag, and–unless you are exceptionally clumsy–you rarely run the risk of cutting off your hand in the machinery. Writing, I tell you, has everything to recommend it over real work.

Roth’s Complaint: Elizabeth Gilbert Takes On Philip Roth – Bookish.

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