Look here, being intelligible is not what it seems. You mean by understanding that you can talk about it in the way that you have a habit of talking – putting it into other words. But I mean by understanding enjoyment… If you enjoy it you understand it… If you did not enjoy it, why do you make a fuss about it?
“The real bright spot at the moment is that I do believe publishing is in transition, the center is collapsing, you have a vibrant and increasingly literate cyberspace, and the inmates are taking over the ground floor of the asylum, with the asylum bosses trapped upstairs. If serious writers can get over their dreams of six-figure advances — and don’t get me wrong, we all have those dreams and there’s nothing wrong with them in and of themselves — they can write their future in publishing.”
Steve Erickson