Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods - or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.
Willa CatherNothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.
Willa CatherYou must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?
Willa Cather