>You can work at a University or you can not be a full-time writer: that's your choice.
If you work at a University are you really a full-time writer though, you do have classes to teach.
At any rate there is one other choice, which would be crime. If you're a good enough criminal you can spend little effort in your trade and still have plenty of time for reading and writing. And if you're caught and do time you can devote that time to literature. Crime also gives you a more interesting subject to write about than University life - it was good enough for Verlaine and Rimbaud.
This is of course half facetious, as you have to be somewhat determined to take that course, and probably also have some other problems.
when I was like 21 I read a piece of advice by Anna Wintour to aspiring couturiers - get a day job.
I have a day job as a programmer, it's pretty chill, lets me make music. And write code for more "artsy" stuff in my spare time, which I mentally liken to Renaissance painters painting portraits for money.
I'm considering going back to school for a maths PhD at some point, that would also be a pretty nice day job.
If you work at a University are you really a full-time writer though, you do have classes to teach.
At any rate there is one other choice, which would be crime. If you're a good enough criminal you can spend little effort in your trade and still have plenty of time for reading and writing. And if you're caught and do time you can devote that time to literature. Crime also gives you a more interesting subject to write about than University life - it was good enough for Verlaine and Rimbaud.
This is of course half facetious, as you have to be somewhat determined to take that course, and probably also have some other problems.
Or there could be an UBI.