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“Not long ago I was leafing through a book on writing and writers. I came across the quotation, 'A writer writes for his own pleasure.' 'Nonsense,' I thought. Writing is my work. I write for my living—to earn an advance, fulfill a contract and meet a deadline—just as I'm doing now.” — Terrance Dicks

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Not long ago I was leafing through a book on writing and writers. I came across the quotation, 'A writer writes for his own pleasure.' 'Nonsense,' I thought. Writing is my work. I write for my living—to earn an advance, fulfill a contract and meet a deadline—just as I'm doing now.
— Terrance Dicks