Reading my Own Writing

If you've written much yourself, you realize that at times reading your own writing is almost unbearable to contemplate. It's the same way I used to feel back in my law office days. By the time I had finished preparing and copying and witnessing a closing, I had spent so much time handling the file that I could hardly stand to touch it again, much less put the file in an easily referenceable order.

Today I do not feel like reading my own writing. So if there are mistakes in what is posted below they'll simply have to wait until tomorrow. Or never. However, since I am uninterested in my own writing this morning I'll leave you with the following quote from one who, according to Philip Yancy, may have rarely read his own writing.

[That I explain myself further] was perhaps an incautious suggestion to make to a person only too ready to write books upon the feeblest provocation (2).

and

I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it
(5).

from Orthodoxy by G.K. Chesterton