a favorite story about Kurt Vonnegut
As told by his son:
“He [Kurt Vonnegut] said he had to be a writer because he wasn’t good at anything else. He was not good at being an employee. Back in the mid-1950s, he was employed by Sports Illustrated, briefly. He reported to work, was asked to write a short piece on a racehorse that had jumped over a fence and tried to run away. Kurt stared at the blank piece of paper all morning and then typed, ‘The horse jumped over the fucking fence,’ and walked out, self-employed again.”
(via Armageddon in retrospect)
