A Goodreads user asked Mark Lind-Hanson:

What is Your dream as writer? Best regards: A. Tomov – junior

Mark Lind-Hanson Maybe everyone's dream as a writer is to one day earn a living off it! The same can be said of musicians. Unfortunately our modern world wants to inflict a lifestyle upon all creative workers which allows few rewards "just for" being creatively prolific. All creative artists now must also work at substantive "other means of support" just to hang on to a primal legitimacy as artists. This may be cruel, and it may also reflect that the "publishing world" has become a clique where true creativity is not as richly regarded as popularity ("public familiarity") or monetary return (always more to the publisher than the author!). So we are faced with a situation in which a clique of highly recognized names earn large sums for producing what is often pure dreck (but popular) and voices are turned away on the roadside who do not produce income for the book-makers. This is both a sand curse to those of us choosing to work in ebooks, since with limited means we're forced to do all the promotional footwork that otherwise publishers would take on for us- the only real reason to take on a publisher anyway is their economic advertising budgets work in your favor.
Nevertheless,what I would hope for most is to be read, of course. The importance of telling stories is in that there are (somewhere) ears to hear them. Books provide a fantastic element of subversiveness for adding to public debate, and without them we should live in a much poorer universe.
A world in which writers are afraid to write just because they won't make any money, or because someone with authority would not like hearing ideas they have to say, would be a world not worth living in.

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