When people asked what I wanted to be, I'd tell them a writer. They were surprised or indifferent. If people don't read, what is a writer? (Tomás Rivera)

When people asked what I wanted to be, I'd tell them a writer. They were surprised or indifferent. If people don't read, what is a writer?

Tomás Rivera

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