“Did you write today?”

“Yes.”

“Then you’re a writer today.”

It would be lovely if being a writer were a permanent state that we could attain to. It’s not, or if it is, the permanence comes posthumously.

A page at a time, a day at a time, is the way we must live our writing lives. Credibility lies in the act of writing. That is where the dignity is. That is where the final “credit” must come from.

-from The Right to Write by Julia Cameron