Authors do this for a living, and if you take their work for nothing, you are depriving them of a living.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
Some authors are quite happy - and have the time - to do it all themselves, which is great.
I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.
I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.
Being a professional writer is not an easy way to make a living.
There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.
Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.
As I see it, my job has always been to champion the work of the authors I publish.
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.