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Edgar Rice Burroughs - ... I was not writing because...

... I was not writing because of any urge to write nor for any particular love of writing. I was writing because I had a wife and two babies, a combination which does not work well without money. (Edgar Rice Burroughs)

... I was not writing because of any urge to write nor for any particular love of writing. I was writing because I had a wife and two babies, a combination which does not work well without money.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

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