Fyodor once said...

[JCamilo]

However, not all his novels are written to pay debts and not everything Tolstoi wrote took years. Speed (rumor or not, Candide was written very fast and it is not the only work) does not mean anything. According the story, Ode to a nightingale was written in one afternoon as well and Flaubert once took 3 months to write 2 pages of Madame Bovary. It is a matter of style, only this.

[Antoin]

Dostoevsky wrote some stories to earn money and распалтиться with debts, but its all novels were написанны not for money, I read his letters where he spoke time and again that though money is required to it now, but nevertheless it postponed a novel writing.
For example the novel the player, it perhaps its unique novel which he wrote for Money. And generally this phrase speaks not so much about that that he wrote something for money, how many about that that are necessary to it was to earn money and to contain a family. It as worked as the chief editor in magazine.
/ the Russian reader