David Guterson , American author
said about Money, Time, Thought, Habit, Being, Books, English, Thinking, Writers, Writing...
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"Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me."
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- David Guterson