Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
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Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
You don't become a poet if you want to make any money.
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.
Writing is work. It takes a lot of contemplation, concentration, and out-and-out sweat. People tend to romanticize it, that somehow your work appears by benefit of some mystical external force. In reality, to be a writer, you have to sit down and write. It's work, and often it's hard work.
People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don't get cut off.
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.
If your purpose is to make money, you shouldn't get into writing.
People want poetry. They need poetry. They get it. They don't want fancy work.