oh, ursula k. leguin, you may have just won me over

"I am going to be rather hard-nosed and say that if you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're writing. And if this lack of motivation is a constant problem, perhaps writing is not your forte. I mean, what is the problem? If writing bores you, that is pretty fatal. If that is not the case, but you find that it is hard going and it just doesn't flow, well, what did you expect? It is work; art is work." -- Ursula K. LeGuin

See, it's funny, because I guess publishers didn't like her first five novels because they were "remote." Which is kind of what I don't like about her later work, too. So she never got over the problem. . . she just found a niche market.

In any case, I think that quote is pretty awesome. Way to give it to us straight, Ursula. Don't baby us when you don't have to.

Maybe I should give this quote to my professor. Man him up a little.