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Originally Posted by calvin-c
Define 'better'. IMO the person writing for money is more likely to write the better book-because they're the ones who will pay attention to their customers. The person 'writing for literature' is more likely to pay attention only to their own opinion of what's 'best'.
I, obviously, define 'better' as 'more popular' rather than as 'satisfying esoteric critics'.
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To their customers? Seriously, that's what literature is reduced to is it? And what are writers now? Word vendors? Entertainment facilitators? Distraction enablers?
To write only for money is not to write at all.