I hope that I will never be presumptuous or arrogant enough to genuinely believe that anything I create is needed by the world in such a fashion that it leaves civilization a bit more bleak and worse off, if it's deprived of the fruits of my genius.
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
How would that knowledge impact you? Would you consider your time and effort wasted? If you knew that a future project would achieve the same results (ie, no one would ever see it), would you be as inclined to spend that time and effort to create it? Do you really create only for you, or do you in fact crave a pat on the back, even if it's from only one person, to make your effort worthwhile?
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I write for me, and for my own pleasure. I don't need validation from anyone else, since I'm not writing for anyone else. The moment I start doing that it becomes work, instead of the escape/pleasure it is now, and it's all downhill from there. So my answer to your question is, yes, I would continue to write even if I knew that no one would ever read it. I sing when no one can hear me too, and I dance when no one can see me, and I don't need compliments or praise in either of those scenarios to make it enjoyable.
