Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing

Two quotes this morning! But this one’s rather different. Author Cormac McCarthy, in a Wall Street Journal interview:

I’m not interested in writing short stories. Anything that doesn’t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Yes, yes, yes! This is what SaveYourself.ca has become to me: a project with no edges; a bottomless pit of creative and professional challenge; absurdly larger than any single book; an almost pathologically ambitious undertaking that has broken many of my days and nights already, and will probably continue to do so for years to come. This is why I ask for donations as well as sell e-books.

What I do here is not a “labour of love,” it’s the perfect trap for a writer: I will be doing this not just for years, but pretty much the rest of my days.