Why I Am Not A Writer

"Verlaine shot Rimbaud. Byron walked with a limp. Dryden was beaten up by the prime minister’s thugs. Dostoyevsky was sent to Siberia. Defoe didn’t publish a novel until he was sixty. Hammett stopped writing at thirty-nine. Faulkner received a D in English at the University of Mississippi. Fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton. Dorothy Parker was fired from Vanity Fair. Graham Greene was sued for libel by a six-year-old."

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