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… Writing Isn't a Career, It's a Mission: An Interview with André Aciman - The Millions. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Hmm. Samuel Johnson said that "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." He was a pretty good writer, and people still read his stuff. Of course, as Max Beerbohm sagely observed, "Only the insane take themselves quite seriously."