‘With your education, you could have been a doctor,’ Mona said.
‘It’s true,’ she said to Emily.
‘But I’m a writer,’ I said. ‘How many doctors has Canada got — thousands. How many writers? A handful. It’s easier to be a doctor than a writer..’
– Norman Levine
“Why Do You Live So Far Away?”
Published in Champagne Barn (Penguin Books, 1984)