Should you protect profits? Yes. But run for the hills? No.
Literature takes a habit of mind that has disappeared. It requires silence, some form of isolation, and sustained concentration in the presence of an enigmatic thing.
How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.
Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.
Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.