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R.L. Stevenson was one who wrote due to reason # 2 I believe. He had health problems (I think T.B. or some other breathing ailment) and had studied to be a lawyer, but due to his health he never practiced. On the other hand I think Shakespeare wrote mainly to pay the bills in his day. It was his friends who saw to it his works were collected and put into print after his death. If not for them his plays may have been lost to us long ago.
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