“The dreamy writer's life I had envisioned in graduate school, crafted by borrowing my more experienced classmates' lofty expectations as well as my tuition funds, seemed inevitable. Six months later, my novel had been rejected by what seemed like every editor in New York City, I was being paid less…”Tagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money, Quote of the Moment
“Today, I own approximately three thousand books. I have gone into debt buying books and made poor financial choices, again and again, for the love of books -- buying a stack of glossy-covered novels instead of paying off bills, binge-ordering a dozen buzzed-about novels online instead of putting…”Tagged: Books, Money, Writers, Writers and money