History is beautiful stories or scary stories, yeah.
I know important literary writers who can't get published.
The culture is with some rapidity fearing its imagination. I don't know why. Imagination is not of interest.
If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.
I have found myself writing poetry shortly after I retired. Which I hadn't done in forty years.
Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.