In his Autobiography, William Carlos Williams recounts what led him to pursue medicine as a career:
No one was ever going to be in a position to tell me what to write, and you can say that again. No one, and I meant no one (for money) was ever (never) going to tell me how or what I was…
I do not wish to compare my humble self to the great WCW, but substitute “Japanese government bureaucracy” for...
on the freedom of keeping your
Splendid. Autobiography first, then into his poetry I go.
I wasn’t going to make any money by writing. Therefore I had to have a means to support myself…for I didn’t intend to...
These words speak...me deeply. Too bad I did not go into something more lucrative like...