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Originally Posted by HarryT
Shakespeare and Dickens both wrote entirely for money. Dickens was obsessed with money, from his childhood experiences of the debt problems suffered by his father. I think most people would accept that both Shakespeare and Dickens were pretty good writers, despite their perverse desires to make a living from their writing.
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Does the fact that most people accept the idea that they were good writers actually make them good writers though? Who is this most anyway? A percentage of the population that is capable of reading their work? If at least 20% of the people who have read a work by an author call the work good, is the work good?