1914 message in a bottle - The Monday Morning Memo

“I was twelve years old before I realized that not everybody does write, that there are people who find writing insuperably difficult, and that there are people who aspire powerfully to be writers but don’t know how to begin. I am frequently asked for advice by young people who are in this latter quandary, and all I can honestly tell them is that if they don’t know how to begin they had better reconsider their ambition to write. Beginning is simple. You write at the top of the page: “Once upon a time.” If nothing comes to mind to follow that introduction you are not a writer.”

- Robertson Davies, The Merry Heart, p. 55

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