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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Half my library is from authors who were "amateurs" when they wrote the books in my library.
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And that can be perceived as a wonderful thing if one is an resentful amateur herself. However, no sane person could argue that writing novels or history or whatever, unlike baking bread, should not be profitable enough so that one could live off that.
Of course, if one devalues intellectual work and believes that that is not the sort of work one should be allowed to make a living from, the argument is over. Let’s then bring those bastard intellectuals down, put them to do some real work in factories or writing code for Google — and if at the end of the day they still have the energy to write a good novel, great. If not, that’s because they were not that serious about it to begin with.