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I don’t write to make money. If money were the goal, I wouldn’t try to reach it by writing, because I never would, and maybe not because of the quality of my writing.
Book publishing is a business, at least the way it’s practiced by the publishing houses, large and mostly the small ones small. The idea is profit, to sell as many books as possible. And the ideal is books that scratch some popular itch, not simply books that are well written. Lately I’ve been reading a lot of self-published books, and I’ve found many of them to be remarkably well-written and often better than books from the big publishers, though, of course, I've also read some that turned out to be pretty mediocre too. So, if you’ve only read the stuff coming out of the publishing houses, maybe try exploring — slumming might be the verb the literati would use — to see what you’re missing.
I usually write what I like to call adult fables — tales to give us so-called grownups pause. And my writing is my hobby, though perhaps more a means of exercising my mind. It’s fun and satisfying to come up with wordings and plots that work, and maybe get some interesting idea across too, even cause some laughter.
— Ray Gregory