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Originally Posted by Moejoe
The question these examples illustrate is why do people write? We know, at least using Shakespeare as an example, that he copied most of his ideas from earlier works and then these works were performed. His (or her) status as a writer was secondary to performance, and performance not as art but as paid entertainment. But we've evolved from that state, and we're in an ongoing revolution of intent.
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If Shakespeare had been around today he'd probably be writing scripts for TV soap operas. His was very much the mass entertainment of his day, and he certainly wasn't writing as "art", but as a shareholder in a theatre company, as a commercial business, providing entertainment for the working classes of his day.
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So yes, some write for money, and there' s nothing ignoble about that pursuit. But you must acknowledge that some of us write because we have something to say, even if that something is only to remember the heat of Spain one summer a long time ago and the shape of a shadow of a bull on a hill in a country waiting for death.
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I absolutely acknowledge that, and I have the utmost respect for those who do write for love. There's room enough in this world for both the TV soap script-writers AND the artists.