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The only sensible ends of literature are, first, the pleasurable toil of writing; second, the gratification of one's family and friends; and lastly, the solid cash.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Family

For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.

I want prose fiction to be recognized as that, and I'm not interested in writing as it becomes more personal.

When I started writing fiction, I knew how good it was immediately.

John C. Hawkes

Fiction

Writing

I found the writing arena to be much less competitive.

Phil Hartman

Writing

I really, really like writing songs.

Debbie Harry

Songs

Writing

Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.

I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too.

My other advice is to start writing songs and singing right away.

Each one of us had a little story to tell and each recording was based on that. Lou played all of the music but we both sort of kicked around some cords during the writing phase.

Phil Harris

Music

Writing

I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive.

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write.

I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print.