/lit/ - Literature

>>20258625
>But that has nothing to do with whether a successful writer would care about being considered an artist.
what is the point you're trying to make? you are autistically focused on the idea that people who get commercial success at a lower level of artistry just "don't care" that their level of craftsmanship is lower. are you trying to say that all of these genre fiction dreck-shovelers "totally could" write actually-well, but just kind of... choose not to?

i know for a fact that if i managed to luck into success without putting an intense amount of work into it, i would feel like a fucking fraud. i'd probably quit reading entirely if i sold picrel to hollywood, because i wouldn't be able to stomach the shame of comparing what i wrote to something that's actually good.

i would care quite a bit, but maybe that's because i'm not a soulless, materialistic bugman.