And it's the same deal with television, sports and with modeling. Book publishing has a lot more in common with music making. Both industries push their individual artists to a particular segment of the culture, and that's about it. Well, I'm still a journalist at heart, so I take research very seriously. Sometimes fans forget that writing is a profession.
Some people tend to think it's all creativity and no real work.
Well, I have news for you, creativity takes real work too. So I visited Hollywood for a week, collected phone numbers, made plenty of phone calls, and read several books on the business end. And you do that to give yourself the full opportunity to make certain points about humanity. Otherwise, you would become just a reporter instead of a creative writer. People were really feeling my work.