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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.

Writers are so important.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just infested with lots of stuff.

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

People become writers in the first place by those things that hurt you into art, as Yeats said it. Then they become separated from what started out affecting them. Journalism forces you to look at the world so you don't get cut off.

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all the time, sometimes on a weekly basis; we create horrible, incredible circumstances and then figure a way out of them. That's what we do.

Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.