Chris Pavone
After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn't in a position to bet everything on a creative-writing career — neither the writing-workshop academia life nor the freelance-writer version, trying to scrape by on short stories and house-painting gigs.
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Follow your dreams. If you have a goal...Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning...Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude...Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues...Time heals...You can't run a government from one single person...