{"id":11530,"date":"2010-06-09T18:44:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T18:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/09\/on-writing-for-money\/"},"modified":"2010-06-09T18:44:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T18:44:02","slug":"on-writing-for-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/09\/on-writing-for-money\/","title":{"rendered":"On Writing for Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">From <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/06\/magazine\/06fob-q4-t.html\"><font face=\"Georgia\">an NYT interview<\/font><\/a><font face=\"Georgia\"> with Christopher Hitchens on the occasion of the publication of his memoir <em>Hitch-22<\/em>:<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\"><strong>Did you write the book for money?<\/strong> <br \/>Of course, I do everything for money. Dr. Johnson is correct when he says that only a fool writes for anything but money. It would be useful to keep a diary, but I don\u2019t like writing unpaid. I don\u2019t like writing checks without getting paid. <\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">The fool <em>in excelsis<\/em>, I suppose, would be he who not only writes what cannot sell, but uses his own blood for ink.&#0160; I am thinking of Nietzsche whose posthumous birth was due in no small measure to&#0160;the &#0160;auto-vivisection which supplied the fluid which powered his pen.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an NYT interview with Christopher Hitchens on the occasion of the publication of his memoir Hitch-22: Did you write the book for money? Of course, I do everything for money. Dr. Johnson is correct when he says that only a fool writes for anything but money. It would be useful to keep a diary, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2010\/06\/09\/on-writing-for-money\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;On Writing for Money&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-matters","category-nietzsche"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}