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Originally Posted by taosaur
He's acknowledging reality.
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This is not reality:
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nobody thinks about making money when they write a book
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Another howler:
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[In the] Soviet Union they used to publish their books for free because they wanted to be read and to express their values
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Actually, almost all of the dissident writers, like Solzhenitsyn, tried to get paid for their books. And often, they did, although this year's bestseller could be next year's banned book. If the book was banned, sure, they would rather Russians read it for free than not at all. But then what? Pasternak comes to mind as someone who stopped writing fiction when he could not continue selling his titles in his home country.