writing worth a shit

[Truerenigma]

I'd rather write something that no one likes than write something I don't want to write.

Even hack writers write good things, but it lacks something to me.

I'm not saying you are wrong. I'm just saying that I couldn't possibly know, nor could you.

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Your favorite poet might have rolled his eyes every time he had to write that bullshit sophomoric line just so other people would get it. Eliot may have thought the Wasteland was cheap and boring and severely limited by the collected intellect of his readership while being wholly delusional all the while. Who knows?