Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1895 — Suggestive. [ARTICLE]

Suggestive.

Undoubtedly many talented writers have to wait long for financial success. But it is well for an ambitious author to face the question whether his failure to make a living by his pen is a result of the poor quality of his work. A French philosopher had been much harassed by the complaints of a wouldbe writer whose talents were certainly not in the direction of literature. One day the young man made a particularly discontented speech about the poverty of writers. “Yes,” rejoined the philosopher, “there bl* as many pca ’“ Writers as there are—poor writers. Think of It, my friend.” And his friend thought of it clearly enough to adopt another profession.