Better to work for yourself alone. You do as you like and follow your own ideas, you admire yourself and please yourself: isn’t that the main thing? And then the public is so stupid. Besides, who reads? And what do they read? And what do they admire?

Gustave Flaubert
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He who works for himself alone is his own master. He can make his own mistakes and learn from them. He is free to concentrate on what he does best and to develop his own gifts, so that he can work better than his rivals. And when the public reads, it does so for enjoyment, not out of any sense of obligation. It is reading for pleasure and enjoyment, not for criticism or approval.

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