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Originally Posted by BionicGecko
I guess it’s as good a purpose as any 
Still I can’t help but to feel sad about this. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I get it, books are a product just like anything else and the people writing them depend on their sale for their livelihood, but there’s something profoundly sad about writing being just a job like any other. |
Even for those who whom it is a 'true calling', they still live in this world so they need the income to allow them to survive. The starving writer does exist but like the starving artist, they either learn to produce marketable work or they move on to other endeavours.