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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I feel like people are expecting me to fail...Patience, persistence and perspiration...The praise of ancient authors proceeds...The world is a book...The information age has made Thiel rich...Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity...