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Old 02-26-2014, 04:36 AM   #55
HarryT
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A true author isn't in this to make money. They're in it for the fun, and to entertain people along the way. Because if you're in it for the fame and money, you're in it for all the wrong reasons.
So you're saying that Dickens and Shakespeare were not "true authors", because they were most assuredly only in it for the money? .

I'm another member of the "I'm only in it for the filthy lucre" club. Back in the far-off days when I wrote physics textbooks, it was for money, pure and simple.

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