“Nobody ever asks her to perform a quick lobectomy — doesn’t have to be anything fancy, maybe just in her spare time, whatever she can do would be great — because it’ll help get her name out there.”

— Tim Kreider on writers not being paid, mentioning his sister (a pulmonologist) http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/opinion/sunday/slaves-of-the-internet-unite.html