What Writers Earn: A Cultural Myth

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/sara-sheridan/writers-earnings-cultural-myth_b_3136859.html

Great Novels can Change your Life...and your Brain Getting lost in a good book can actually change your brain, with neural paths forming in the same way as if you were actually living the experience, scientists have found

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/01/no_author/great-novels-can-change-your-life/