If I had to give young writers advice, I'd say don't listen to writers talking about writing. It doesn't pay well to fight for what we believe in. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else. Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.
People change and forget to tell each other.
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