Even in the way I write my novels, say I perceive that there are certain rules that make for “good” writing, where “good” writing is writing that people like to read. Am I wrong then to ignore these rules? To write what people don’t like. Such a choice might make for awfully queer novels but would not a fool be the fellow who says they are not “good” and means anything other than people don’t like to read them. For the same reason that my own preferences seem arbitrary and unfounded, so too for the collective preferences of society, and might I choose the former for “my” writing, even if it is not preferred by the latter? For isn’t this the only way to maintain individuality? Yet what is worth more: a homogenous mass one or a heterogenous small many?