“…doing it [writing] for love is the only remaining liberty” Erica Jong

“Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That’s why it is so easy to exploit us. That is also why we pretend to be hard-boiled, saying things like ‘No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money’ (Samuel Johnson). Not true. No one but a blockhead ever wrote except for love…

In a society in which everything is for sale, in which deals and auctions make the biggest news, doing it for love is the only remaining liberty. Do it f...