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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
If he's looking down on us, and noticing my post count, I suppose he considers yours truly just one more blockhead 
P.S. I think that outstanding books are usually written in hopes of getting money, but not only for that. |
When Dr. Johnson said, "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money," I think he was underscoring the idea that a writer is a craftsperson and therefore should be modest. Johnson might not have respected recreational writers, but he had a singular contempt for bad ones.
We now live in a time in which publishing is so inexpensive that no one needs to be humble. For most of us, the only remaining rejection letter is public indifference.