I always had good students.
Good art is a form of prayer. It's a way to say what is not sayable.
I know important literary writers who can't get published.
If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.
The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.
I love thrillers. I would even read certain science fiction, although I haven't been a devotee for many years.