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Don't Quit Your Day Job : Acclaimed Authors and the Day Jobs They Quit by Sonny Brewer; Howard Bahr; Pat Conroy is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Contributory essays by: Howard Bahr, Rick Bragg, Larry Brown, Pat Conroy, Connie May Fowler, Tom Franklin, Tim Gautreaux, William Gay, John Grisham, Winston Groom, Silas House, Suzanne Hudson, Joshilyn Jackson, Barb Johnson, Cassandra King, Janis Owens, Michelle Richmond, Clay Risen, George Singleton, Matthew Teague, Daniel Wallace, Brad Watson, Steve Yarbrough and Sonny Brewer. Cover picture by Barry Moser.<br> P.J. O'Rourke said, "Creative writing teachers should be purged until every last instructor who has uttered the words 'Write what you know' is confined to a labor camp . . . The blind guy with the funny little harp who composed The Iliad, how much combat do you think he saw?"<br> Like O'Rourke, William Faulkner had his own take on the Other Commandment for writers, the one that goes, "Thou shalt not quit thy day job." Faulkner, who won the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature, had, twenty-five years before, worked at the post office in his hometown of Oxford, Mississippi.<br> Mister Faulkner was known to say, "One of the saddest things is that the only thing a man can do for eight hours, is work. You can't eat eight hours a day, nor drink for eight hours a day, nor make love for

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Author

Sonny Brewer; Howard Bahr; Pat Conroy

Publisher

M P Publishing Limited

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781849821292

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.03 / 5 (63 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14