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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A war is never undertaken by the ideal...A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person...Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all...Wherever my story takes me...All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit...The empires of the future...