Comments on: appalling: leaving graduate school, starting a small literary press http://catalystbookpress.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/appalling-leaving-graduate-school-starting-a-small-literary-press/ The places, ideas, and people that change us Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:27:49 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Don Goodman http://catalystbookpress.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/appalling-leaving-graduate-school-starting-a-small-literary-press/#comment-125 Don Goodman Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:43:34 +0000 http://catalystbookpress.wordpress.com/?p=45#comment-125 My wife is a book lover but she finances the book recycling industry since I'm not going to pay for storage of all those paperbacks. You are not a book lover only. You are an ambitious book lover. This means you are going to a) marry a very rich man (assuming you are interested in that sort of thing) to finance your ambition, b) you will be very poor or c) you will write successful books and instead of spending your vast fortune on drugs, gambling or traveling in Africa, you will spend it all on literary geniuses who sell 63 books a year each and you will still be really poor. At the end, when you look back, what will you see? Fair question... Regards, Don Goodman My wife is a book lover but she finances the book recycling industry since I’m not going to pay for storage of all those paperbacks.
You are not a book lover only. You are an ambitious book lover. This means you are going to a) marry a very rich man (assuming you are interested in that sort of thing) to finance your ambition, b) you will be very poor or c) you will write successful books and instead of spending your vast fortune on drugs, gambling or traveling in Africa, you will spend it all on literary geniuses who sell 63 books a year each and you will still be really poor.

At the end, when you look back, what will you see? Fair question…

Regards,

Don Goodman

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