Daniel replies:

Please don't take this to mean that I do not love to write, and love my readers, and want to make life better for all humans by producing art.  The inspiration for writing, the thing that has to be possible or I won't bother to do it, is the chance of getting paid.  Learning to write was hard, and took a long time, and finally I got to be good enough for it to be my work.  Everybody should be paid for working.