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Originally Posted by NickSpalding
Can it ever truly be someone's motivation for writing?
I'd find it hard to maintain enthusiasm over the course of 80,000 words, if all I was thinking about was how many Aston Martin's I could buy at the end of it.
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True story: Astrid Anderson had a school assignment involving a science fiction book, with the goal of "explain why the writer wrote this story."
She turned in a one-line answer: He wrote it for the money.
Teacher gave her an "F."
She returned the next day with a note from her father, Poul Anderson, saying, "I wrote that book because Astrid needed braces that year."