WRITING AS MINISTRY

I really like this quote-can’t recall author.
“I once told someone that publishing is a ministry of sorts–the salaries are pitiful when one factors in the amount of time and work, yet it is a passion one cannot stay away from. Every project, every new book, becomes an obsessive love affair that you are determined to make work. You think about it late at night. You convince others of its worth. It often (though not always) changes your life….like a Jesuit priest ….you pray…you keep your faith…”