Money Talks, A Good Story Walks (poem) by Alexander Goldstein on AuthorsDen

Money Talks, A Good Story Walks
by Alexander Goldstein → (All Poetry by Alexander Goldstein)
Friday, September 4, 2015 Rated "G" by the Author.

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As is well known, “Money talks, but Sometimes it needs a good interpreter.” Can money write? Cervantes wrote, And so did Victor Hugo and Lev Tolstoy And Grimm brothers and Oscar Wilde, Out of the sheer delight of creation— Money had nothing to do with it, To wide extent, I mean it. Even today When there're royalties and copyrights, Money is purely an accident. Why? No amount of money can make An uncreative mind tell a good story, Or compose a stanza or a quatrain Or complete a screenplay, if not A half of drama in the last resort. The greatest story-tellers, like Defoe Or Fielding or Twain, they wrote Because they had a good story to tell And because they were born so. A secure living makes the writing By our creative minds quite possible, But a secure living never creates Any literary works, not to mention A masterpiece or something of a sort. Money helped to send Charles Dickens On his American tour, but money Could not help in creation of some Of his brilliant characters, like Scrooge Or Oliver Twist or David Copperfield.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull

Reviewed on September 4, 2015

Very well said in a poem that could just as well have been an article. Like all of the arts, there seem to be two types of fame: popular and classical. Popular fame generates money because it is current and generally attractive to young people with fickle tastes and discretionary money. On the other hand, classical fame may get critical acclaim or defame, but stands the test of time, like the works of the authors you have mentioned.

As a writer who writes from my heart and experience, I would like to be in the latter category. Fame is fleeting if it's popular.

Ron

Reviewed by Sandie May Joyce (Sandie Angel)

I can assure you that money ISN'T an accident much is you want to believe it. To be a good poet and story-teller you really have to LEARN to art of writing. As an interpreter you'll also have to learn to use proper words and phrases. Everything is done and learned through hard work, nothing is miracle. Money doesn�t just happen to grow on trees. You'll have to earn it -your fame and fortune as well. I have done interpretation in my life working for the government. I translate seized documents and interpret for other investigators. I write as a hobby and have made a name for myself. It is all done through hard work, skills, and my talents. I do not write because of fame or money, I write because of my interest to write and because I make friends with other authors because I'm humble. I don't look at myself as the best so there is always room for me to improve. My job also enables me to meet people analyze their body languages and those ones I don't meet I learn to analyze their personalities in the writings. Everything is done through years of experience and hard work. If you think to be a writer, fame and fortune just happen you have a lot to learn from others. We never ceased to learn from others for as long as we live. The young can learn from the old, and the old can learn from the young. No one is better than the other because there is always something that the others know that we may not know. We all need to be more humble even when we have achieved plenty and not be thinking that we are far better than the others. I think that's the best way to be when we think we are all equal and learn from one another.

Not every writer writes for a living to begin with, they write as a hobby, and because it is a form of entertainment to themselves. Always write and give it your best effort, and always believe it is the best one you've ever written. In time a masterpiece will be born. This will happen, but not without hard work.

Sandie