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Originally Posted by Phogg
If you are asserting that this is only an assumption, it might behoove you to read those things at the beginning of books called prefaces. In them the authors describe how they came to write and publish the work.
You are making an assertion that DIRECTLY denies things writers have been saying since the 19th century. On what evidence do you make this ludicrous claim?
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I'm confused as to what you're trying to refute here. I'm saying that I believe that there are talented writers out there who want to write, yes, and that they want to earn a living at writing, not to give those works away for free. Are you suggesting that those published writers are saddened that that they're getting paid for those books? I have yet to read a preface that says any such thing.
I also base this on the fact, while I am not a novelist myself, I probably count 20+ friends as novelists and have been asked to critique their work. And in most cases their dreams are to earn their living writing - not to get published alone, but to be able to write full time - and still to eat eat, pay rent, and exist.
I am not saying that they are entitled to this. But if they have the talent (and some of them are published authors and some have merely agents and some just have manuscripts in a drawer) than a world in which people are saying that they should give up their labor for free and and they don't deserve to be paid because by its very nature, creativity should be a gift to the world that doesn't give back - well, the people who say that may say they care about books, but they clearly don't care about writers or their future.