"Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience."
-Rebecca West
Being a writer is tricky. In order to be worthy of relevance, you have to say something unique. Doing so, however, makes your work vulnerable to critique, inevitably allowing it to be weighed on a scale of good vs. bad, agreeable vs. disagreeable, wrong vs. right. What would be the point of reading something that you can't argue with or against? Why read something that doesn't challenge you to establish an opinion? And that's the sitch- to be a writer you have to be OK with being hated.
I know that this whole writing pursuit is a little futile and completely self-indulgent. But you only live once. And what would be the point of it all if you can't allow yourself to be a little capricious and impractical, all in the name of passion?
My point exactly.
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