• My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir.

    Vladimir Nabokov: My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir.
    Letter to an editor who had offered him $200 for 2,000 words. Quoted by Eleanor Blau in the NewYork Times, 24 Aug1989.