botherjoseph:

Harlan Ellison — Pay the Writer (by factualfactory)

Don’t do shit for free or for cheap, because people will be used to getting you for free or for cheap. 

Our work as creative professionals is important, because potential clients see our work as important enough to book us- but not important enough to pay us as much as they get paid themselves.

That’s unfair. 

My photography is as important as your fucking accounting, your fucking business administration, your fucking journalism, and your fucking commercial advertising agency.

Don’t fuck me over because I have been before, and I’ve always learned.