A lot of writers tired of doing kind of hip, slick, funny, dark, exploding hypocrisy, underlining once again the point that life is a farce and we're all in it for ourselves and that the point of life is to amass as much money/fame/sexual gratification, you know, whatever your personal thing is, and that everything else is just glitter or PR image - that we're tired of sort of doing that stuff over and over again.

TV's "real" agenda is to be "liked," because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.

Good literature makes your head throb heartlike

Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?

I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.