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Old 04-04-2012, 02:25 AM   #28
speakingtohe
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Originally Posted by GA Russell View Post
Just a couple of weeks ago I came across a Larry King USA Today column from twenty years ago in which he said that Kurt Vonnegut told him that there were only 300 full time authors in America supporting themselves writing.
Hmmm.....
300 seems a tad low IMO, maybe 300 SF authors? Still seems a bit low but I am pretty sure that even 20 years ago their were 300 authors who made a living at writing in a lot of smaller countries than the US.

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