06302009 Cormac McCarthy tells Oprah: "You've got to have food and shoes"
Yeah, that's about all you need. So, think you're a writer? Really? Sure? Good. Here's what The Man (who was totally broke for a long long time) has to say:
"It’s not that I don’t like things, some things are very nice, but they certainly take a distant second place to being able to live your life and do what you want to do. And I always knew that I didn't want to work. … You have to be dedicated but it was my No. 1 priority. … I thought you're just here once, life is brief, and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it. … And, um, I don’t have any advice for anybody on how to go about that except that if you're really dedicated you can probably do it."
Here's the first part of the interview. You can find the rest on the interwebs:
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Reader Comments (2)
Working sucks, unless you're a hooker.
nuthin new to me ;)