It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade. (William S. Burroughs)

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.

William S. Burroughs

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