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Writers who whine

Garrison Keillor may seem like a sweet, cuddly guy when you hear him on the radio doing A Prairie Home Companion, but I just came across this column by him, and the man has BITE.

A lot of people, including some writers, have a few strange and melodramatic ideas about what it means to be a writer. Read Garrison’s take on that.

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Posted on Sunday, May 7th, 2006 at 7:38 pm under Writing . Subscribe to responses: RSS 2.0 Comment Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

2 Responses to “Writers who whine”

  1. Lizzie Says:
    May 7th, 2006 at 10:38 pm

    Oh my god, I love Garrison Keillor SO much! My roommate and I are going to the midnight show of A Prairie Home Companion the night it opens (if there is a midnight show, that is).

    “The fact of the matter is that the people who struggle most with writing are drunks. They get hammered at night and in the morning their heads are full of pain and adverbs.”

    SO TRUE!!!

  2. annette Says:
    May 8th, 2006 at 10:44 am

    robin,
    robin,
    thank you for sharing that column. gk’s wisdom transcends the occupation of writer and can be applied to whiners in every field. he is so right, life is so good and we are so abubdantly blessed in this country, why are we so full of ourselves. no matter how lofty one’s profession, what it all comes down to is–it’s just your day job.
    p.s. stick to the chocolate habit.