I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.
“As soon as he hit it, I thought I had it. But I lost it when it went into the lights. I did my best.”
“A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.”