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What writer would pass up the opportunity to peer into the reader’s mind? Hemingway, Faulkner, Dickens, Twain, Thoreau, Capote... (I can go on and on, but you

• PavlovsCat 13y ago
  > Writers and people who had command of words were respected and feared as people who manipulated magic. In latter times I think that artists and writers have allowed themselves to be sold down the river. They have accepted the prevailing belief that art and writing are merely forms of entertainment. They’re not seen as transformative forces that can change a human being; that can change a society. They are seen as simple entertainment; things with which we can fill 20 minutes, half an hour, while we’re waiting to die. It’s not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need. -- Alan Moore How many hack writers can hustle in the non-existing wriggle room between this and what Bill Hicks said about artists suc^H^H^Hselling out? Whenever I pull up the analytics dashboard, it just reads "way too many".