[wideawake]

Your points are well taken. But the best doctors are people who really take pride in their abilities of diagnosis and therapy.

The best carpenters are the ones who take great pride in their work and often do little "extras" that may be more costly or time-consuming.

The same goes for writers - the best writers are the ones who put in the kind of time and effort that no one in particular asks of them - they enjoy the work for its own sake.

I'm not saying they shouldn't get paid - I'm saying that no one whose primary motivation is to get paid has ever been a great writer.

[Protagoras]

The Sun Also Rises

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A Farewell to Arms

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For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Old Man and the Sea

That's one Author

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The Sound and the Fury