“It is much harder for young writers to start now . . . it is much
harder for young a lot of things to start now. . . . It’s too bad there is no
way for a poor person to make a beginning as a writer now.”
—Kurt
Vonnegut (1922-2007), in Vonnegut
and Suzanne McConnell, “Kurt Vonnegut on Making a Living as a Writer,”
The Nation, 1973. (Thanks to
alert WORDster Andrew Merton)
• Editorial Comment: And that was 1973, before I started trying to
make a living as a writer...
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