1. “

    Gregor von Rezzori: [O]ne day I sat down and wrote a story. Somebody got hold of it and sent it to a publisher. They instantly wanted me to write another one, which I did. Because I thought, my God, this is a very agreeable way of earning money. How wrong I was I found out later. But by then it was too late.

    Bomb Magazine: A disagreeable way of not earning much money.

    GvR: Yes, yes. Somebody with a little bit more intelligence doing the same amount of work, you’ll become an Onassis. Well, who needs that?

    ”

    — 

    Three Percent has unearthed an interview with Gregor von Rezzori published in Bomb Magazine in 1988

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