I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.
Tillie Olsen (1995). “Tell Me a Riddle”, p.96, Rutgers University Press
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I could not live by literature if only to begin with, because of the slow maturing of my work and its special character.