Writing Rich, Money Poor

"I have to concede that if you want to get rich, in monetary sense, you should probably do something besides write. But for me, it's enough that writing makes me rich in other ways. I was poor when I wasn't writing, when I didn't trust the value of taking time to put my heart and mind on paper, when I thought that because I wasn't already published, my desire to write was dilettantish. It wasn't until I started taking writing classes that I began to from out of the poverty of not trusting myself as a writer. In those early classes, I recognized that I felt better on days I wrote than days I didn't write." Sheila Bender