Duncan McLean: How else do you measure success as a writer except the extent to which you “get your message out there?” If the question assumes things like money, fame, awards to be measures of success, then I would oppose that assumption. Those things may be signs of success as a business person, or as a career builder. But success for a writer is in perseverance, in finding a voice and letting it speak, and in—no, not “getting a message out there,” but—getting a story out there.

@ Farrago’s Wainscot (via Endicott Redux)