You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.

You write a hit the same way you write a flop

'The Robe' was lousy but an almighty hit. I was dull as ditchwater and an almighty flop.

If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie.

I'd rather share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop.

The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.