Harlan Ellison on “Amateurs”
Here’s Harlan Ellison’s take on “amateurs”.
From the documentary Dreams With Sharp Teeth.
For aspiring writers, not wannabes (and there is a distinction, y’know)…
Beautiful Desolation
The Life & Times of an Independent Author
Beautiful Desolation 
Some people don’t work for the money, end of. I think it’s a little sad to commercialise literature.
*cough* Paolini *cough*
Highly entertaining excerpt. Thanks for sharing.
I love the bit about them not even sending him a copy of the DVD. That made me laugh out loud. As did the depiction of Warner Brothers as a pauper with a tin cup. Good stuff.