“There is something so degrading – at least, one would think that there were something so degrading in the practice of writing as a trade – that anyone who has once earned a livelihood, or part of it, obviously and openly, by popular writing, can never be seriously regarded by any great number of people. And then, of course, “he does too much.”

“There is something so degrading – at least, one would think that there were something so degrading in the practice of writing as a trade – that anyone who has once earned a livelihood, or part of it, obviously and openly, by popular writing, can never be seriously regarded by any great number of people. And then, of course, “he does too much.”

— Ezra Pound