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Old 04-04-2012, 10:03 AM   #38
JD Gumby
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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.
Authors of *fiction* (and maybe biography - which is, frankly, close to fiction anyways, in most cases :P), because obviously there are and were many thousands supporting themselves by writing. Journalists, technical writers, and so on.
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