Excellent Quote

[cameron]

"Writing is not a job, nor a hobby - it's an addiction without a cure."

Gill Adams

This is written on the acknowledgement card that you get when you submit something to the BBC Writersroom. I thought I'd post it. Gill Adams writes radio plays - apparently - and is big in Lincolnshire and Hull.

[k-j]

That might be true for Gill. For me, writing is a hobby. And for a journalist I know, it's a job.

I dunno. It annoys me when people make writing out to be inherently different. If you're Dostoyevsky or James Joyce, maybe it is, but for 99% of us writing is no different from raffia.

[David]

I'm kinda with k-j on this one, Cam. It's one of the bees in my rather comely but old-fashioned bonnet. "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world." Balls! Well, maybe you are, Shelley.

It's easier than raffia work.

[cameron]

Auditors are the unacknowledged legislators of the world. However, Shelley wouldn't have known that because he never did a day's work in his life.

Wasn't James Joyce a banker?

C

[k-j]

Wasn't James Joyce a banker?

I've read some of his letters and yes, he does sometimes comes across as a bit of a banker.

Actually it was Eliot who was the banker by profession.

I'm an auditor, and while I don't know about legislating the world, I do feel unacknowledged.

[tomwein880]

Im definitely in the hobby camp. I hope for Ms Adam's sake that she has plenty of ideas then, otherwise she will go mad in pretty short order.