Carter has evolved into a professional writer. “Most of my income comes from writing,” he said. He writes when he’s at home, in Plains, Georgia. “I’m a farmer still: I get up at five o’clock. I will write until I get tired, until ten or eleven o’clock. Then I have a woodshop twenty feet away, and I go there and I build furniture, and I paint.”

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