Love of writing doesn't make the time needed to write a novel and it doesn't feed families. Surely the quality of the output rather than the purity of the inte

Love of writing doesn't make the time needed to write a novel and it doesn't feed families. Surely the quality of the output rather than the purity of the intent should be the driving metric? Weary journalists knocking out a book to order are realisticall better than 95% of enthusiastic amateurs. Besides, most writers are notoriously penny less. Why do you think anyone is going into it for the money?