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I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of a certain milieu, a certain attitude, to have a clean conscience, but also to make a living. I was twenty-five. I had been told that one must make a living, and I believed it.

— Marcel Duchamp

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In the last century, I earned my living as a librarian, and I loved it. I'd have to take some classes to get up to speed with 21st-century librarianship.

— Elizabeth McCracken

Since I don't come from a privileged background, I couldn't afford to be irresponsible with career decisions. I wrote two books alongside my job and resigned only when I realised I can make a living.

— Amish Tripathi

In addition to being a writer, I'm a librarian - professionally trained and everything.

— Theresa Breslin

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

— Terry Pratchett

For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in New Jersey. My life has always been with, around, and for books.

— Avi

I became a writer because I love books, and I believe in their power.

— Deb Caletti

I became an academic so that I could share my knowledge and experience with students.

— Vivek Wadhwa

By the time I was twenty-three, I'd given up any thought of becoming a fiction writer, and I didn't return to the craft for over two decades. But, at the age of forty-five, return I did.

— Eric Flint

Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen.

— Robert E. Howard

✗Opposing Perspectives

I started writing when I was 21. I was going to become an historian. And then I realized there was more to the world than just the past. I didn't want to spend my life in the library.

— Janet Fitch