"Write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers within three years the candidate may look upon his circumstances with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for."
Mark Twain. Quoted in Safire and Safir, Good Advice on Writing. No further attribution to Twain is given, which annoys me. Also annoying: I make a living sawing wood.
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