Career
advice:
"Coleridge was a drug addict.
Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was
stabbed by a man whom he was treacherously
trying to stab. Pope took money to
keep a woman's name out of a satire,
then wrote a piece so that she could
still be recognized anyhow. Chatterton
killed himself. Byron was accused
of incest. Do you still want to be
a writer -- and if so, why?"
--Bennett
Cerf (1898-1971), co-founder of Random
House (Thanks to alert WORDster Tom
McGuire)
