"Writing ought either
to be the manufacture
of stories for which there is
a market demand -
a business as safe and
commendable as making soap
or breakfast foods -
or it should be an art,
which is always a search
for something for which
there is no market demand,
something new and untried,
where the values are intrinsic
and have nothing to do with
standardized values."

Willa Cather

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