Being a Writer of Proper literature

“Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don’t even want to run, but, once running, can’t help but not want to lose. There’s lots of anxiety about your position in that race. Hence my decision to forget the race and simply write, regardless. Even regardless of whether or not I’m published and have readers – that the desire to write (not to out-write others) is all that matters, to keep integrity, to enjoy it.”
--Samantha Harvey