For those who start within the establishment, professional writing is likely to correspond to drudgery, and they’ll seek to escape it. For those on the outside looking in, it’s a mark of legitimacy.
The reasons behind why writers write is arguably broken into two camps: for art and as a profession. Certainly neither is more legitimate than the other, but does one inspire more creativity? The New Republic explores the question.
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