Art Is Not Math

Pedro Hoffmeister
3 min readFeb 2, 2022

And it certainly isn’t accounting.

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I follow a lot of writers. Famous writers, beginning writers, mid-level poets and freelance essayists. I like to read what writers have to say online, and I’m often impressed with or astounded by their opinions. But there’s a sad refrain I read too often:

“I don’t sell many books.”

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Pedro Hoffmeister

Author with Random House. TBI survivor who struggles. Poet. Climber. Former Writer-In-Residence of Joshua Tree National Park. Podcast: “Boring Is A Swear Word”