Rarely do pens go dry in restaurants.
You can register a political objection in a number of ways.
Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose.
I don't do all that well in the writerly world. I'm happier being outside the flow.
People don't like to read text on computer screens (and reading a lot of text on iPod screens gets very tiring very soon, just about as soon as running out of battery power).
One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.