SuzyShearer on Nostr: #WritersCoffeeClub 8 January. Do you agree with Samuel Johnson, who said, “No man ...
#WritersCoffeeClub 8 January. Do you agree with Samuel Johnson, who said, “No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money”?
Maybe the quote shoud be '...a blockhead ever wrote expecting to earn money..."
What author in their right mind thinks they’ll make money writing?
We do it for free because we enjoy it. If you sell books, that’s an added bonus.
Considering he spent 9 years of his life writing a dictionary, I think the quote, if really said, was tongue-in-cheek. It was apparently 'said' when speaking about writing a book on travels in Italy. He 'said' he do it for money.
Maybe the quote shoud be '...a blockhead ever wrote expecting to earn money..."
What author in their right mind thinks they’ll make money writing?
We do it for free because we enjoy it. If you sell books, that’s an added bonus.
Considering he spent 9 years of his life writing a dictionary, I think the quote, if really said, was tongue-in-cheek. It was apparently 'said' when speaking about writing a book on travels in Italy. He 'said' he do it for money.