Karl Marx on writers

“The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.”

National Library - Dublin

National Library, Dublin

“The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.”

Happy May Day!

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