“I got on with the task of turning myself into a brief professional writer. The term professional is not meant to imply a high standard of commitment and attainment: it meant then, as it still does, the pursuit of a trade or calling to the end of paying the rent and buying liquor. I leave the myth of inspiration and agonised creative inaction to the amateurs.”
Anthony Burgess, You’ve Had Your Time, Being the Second Part of the Confessions of Anthony Burgess
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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