Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?
You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.
Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
Rooms are a fixed size, which can't be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones. They should be unchanging in shape and proportions. But sometimes they do change depending on who's in them.