Great Quote

I saw this blog on my sister Lisa's blog, and I loved it:

"There's a simple rule for becoming a writer, or an artist, or a photographer: do it. If you want to become a photographer, take pictures. If you want to become a writer, write. If you want to become an artist, draw. There is no substitute. There is no royal road offered by taking courses or reading how-to books. Unless you sit down and do it, such things are utterly useless.

Now, becoming a better writer, artist, dancer or what-not will perhaps benefit from instruction, but instruction is not a substitute for action. Taking a course in writing is a bit like buying a diet book and not doing anything else. The diet book will not magically make you slender and desirable. You've got to eat less and exercise more, and the book is not going to do it for you.

I think of such things as the "illusion of action." You think you're doing something when you're watching the TV news. You think something has happened because you bought a diet book. You think you've done something because you took a course in writing, but unless you have brought something to it, nothing at all has happened." --David Lance Goines

Isn't that a thought-provoking quote?
P.S.  If you click on the above link to view Lisa's blog, just know that while she is a woman of many hidden talents, putting on Lederhosen and trying to do the polka in front of her very reserved in laws is not one of Lisa's usual activities.   She spices up everyone's lives, that girl.