As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for so-called blissful moments, for inspiration; if it comes, so much the better--but you keep working anyway.


Letters (ed. 1983)

Ivan Turgenev Quotes

As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for so-called...

As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for so-called...

As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for so-called...

As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for so-called...