Writing is ...

I have again heard from readers who posted comments that never appeared. You can e-mail your comments directly to me at dcox@paducahsun.com if they don't post from the comments page.

To help you get started on your famous quote on writing that will outlive you, choose one of the following and defend it (or mock all three if they deserve it):

1. Writing is joy. It wells up inside you until it bursts out, connecting your heart to the heart of a kindred spirit you've never met.

2. Writing is work. If you aren't exhausted at the end of a writing session, hit delete before anyone else sees what you've written.

3. Writing is pain. If you write for pleasure, it might be therapeutic for you, but no one else will give a damn what you have to say.

Who said it? "I'm not superstitious. But I am a little stitious."

And from Will Rogers: "Why don't they passs a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as prohibition did, in five years we will have the smartest people on earth."

What is the (deliberate) error, and does it enhance and detract from the quote?