TMG: My dad had a business, and my then father-in-law couldn’t understand why I didn’t want to go into that business, why I was never tempted. And he said: “Why won’t you take advantage of your advantages?”
TO: Wow.
TMG: And so I responded with twenty years of subsistence living"
— Téa Obreht interviewing Thomas McGuane on “Not Living the Writer’s Life,” Lithub