Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: January 28, 1844 - January 28, 1911
Birthday: January 28
Death: January 28
Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity or hod-carrying. Make shoes, weed cabbages, survey land, keep house, make ice-cream, sell cake, climb a telephone pole. Nay, be a lightning-rod peddler or a book agent, before you set your heart upon it that you shall write for a living.... Living? It is more likely to be dying by your pen; despairing by your pen; burying hope and heart and youth and courage in your ink-stand.
topic: Weed, Book, Teaching, Burying, Peddler
