When you write you want fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. You want to write what you want to write and to feel that it’s good and to sell millions of copies of it and have everybody whose opinion you value think it’s good, and you want this to go on for hundreds of years. You’re not likely to ever get all these things, and you’re not likely to give up writing or commit suicide if you don’t, but that is –– and should be –– your goal. Anything less is kind of piddling.
Tulip [unpublished novel, 1952]
Use the link below to read about the life, work and drinking habits of North American crime writer DASHIELL HAMMETT (1894–1961):
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