Most fiction writers are still poor, starving artists who can't afford to quit their day jobs to pursue their craft full-time. That is their greatest desire in life: They simply want to have the time to write the Great American Novel that everyone will read and love and cherish and buy (or, atleast, every library will buy). But most writers don't have that time to write because they can't afford to quit their day jobs. It's a classic Catch-22 scenario!
Writers like Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and other best-selling authors have escaped from the 9 to 5 trap (both were school teachers before their writing sold to the movies), but they still have to write constantly (and well, each novel expected to be better than the last) in order to pay their bills (including their agents, publicists, etc., as well as rent and insurance and ISP fees). Not only must they write, they must also sell their writing.
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