“But the point is that most people will exploit poets. They’ll exploit them for – well, exploit the older ones for the knowledge they have, and they’ll exploit the younger ones for the promise they have, which somehow or other gives the people some kind of thing that maybe they have promise too, which they don’t.”
- Jack Spicer, Berkeley, 7/14/65
And much the same could probably said of writers in other genres.
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