"Other people get into occupations by accident or……" — W. P. Kinsella

"Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk."

— W. P. Kinsella

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