In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.
My parents were keen for me to have the education they themselves never had....
One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
What reader wants to be told what attitude to strike?
I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.
