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Originally Posted by teh603
Anyone who wants to write a "future classic" needs to have their head examined. That's the kind of boring tripe that gets recycled endlessly though middle and high school English classes. I'd rather write someone's guilty pleasure or cult classic.
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Does anyone think Dickens was trying to write a 'future classic'? Or Mark Twain? Or Harper Lee? No, they were not only trying to write the story they needed to tell, they were trying to write it in the most marketable manner possible.
Artists don't determine what is great art, everybody else does. All the artist does is cash the check (either from sales or unemployment insurance, or that loan from their brother-in-law, a check is a check)