Can You See What I See?

I found this torn out bit in my purse. It reads, "Let's face it, wtiting is hell." -William (Faulkner?) (Shakespeare?) (?)

Maybe I tore it from a waiting room or check-out aisle magazine. I have no recollection. But it must have jumped off the page to me at the moment. Writer's Block? Deadline? Boredom? It doesn't matter because it's true. Writing is hell. But the kind of hell Milton's Satan walked into tenaciously without reservation. Nathaniel Hawthorne described Fanny Fern as writing “as if the devil was in her.” So, cheers to the hell we have chosen! There's no redemption.