You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.
Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual...
If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it you just feel that...
I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'