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Originally Posted by HarryT
It would be perfectly true for authors such as William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens. Both of those gentlemen wrote solely for money.
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Whoa. English Major Flag On The Play. What we actually know and can verify about Shakespeare The Person is so meager that no one can say what motivated him to do what he did. There's still considerable controversy about whether all the plays and poems attributed to that name came from the same writer or if some were written by (or in collaboration with) someone else.
Dickens, on the other hand, did write for the money, but there is a considerable amount of people who are of the opinion that his works would have better had he not been paid in the manner that he was.