I wouldn’t be able to work in an office
From Conversations with Nelson Algren (1964), H. E. F. Donohue and Nelson Algren, p. 315:
I suppose outwardly the chief thing [about writing] is that it’s a way of earning a living. I don’t know if I could earn a living another way. The other way I would earn a living would be as a porter somewhere. I wouldn’t be able to work in an office.
January 17th, 2007 09:23
Tell that to Wallace Stevens. :)
January 29th, 2007 20:29
That’s why I worked as a waitress for so many years.