I Wrote Because I Could Not Help It. There Was Something That I Wanted To Say, And I Said It: That Was All. The Fame And The Money And The Usefulness Might Or Might Not Follow. It Was Not By My Endeavor If They Did.

-Harriet Martineau

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I Wrote Because I Could Not Help

Harriet Martineau

I Wrote Because I Could Not Help It. There Was Something That I Wanted To Say, And I Said It: That Was All. The Fame And The Money And The Usefulness Might Or Might Not Follow. It Was Not By My Endeavor If They Did.

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Fame

When Once Experience Taught Me That I Could Work When I Chose, And Within A Quarter Of An Hour Of My Determining To Do So, I Was Relieved, In A Great Measure, From Those Embarrassments And Depressions Which I See Afflicting Many An Author Who Waits For A Mood Instead Of Summoning It, And Is The Sport, Instead Of The Master, Of His Own Impressions And Ideas.

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