A writer inevitably - and less directly this applies to all the arts - about contemporary events, and his impulse is to tell what he believes to be truth. But no government, no big organisation, will pay for the truth.

George Orwell
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Some people have a problem with the fact that writers write about what they believe to be truth. The writers themselves are not bothered by this, but the government, the big organisations, are not happy about it. The truth exposes things that are wrong or it says something that they do not want to hear. Therefore, the writers are paid less for their work.

Source: I Have Tried To Tell The Truth: 19431944

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