There's this flood of writers and nearly all of them want to be published-authors instead of authors. The love for the writing has to come first before the love for getting published. The publishing houses and their efficiency for sales are for getting published. The media glitz and the contracts and the competing dollar signs are for getting published. The occupationalization of writing and the workshops with admissions procedures and classrooms are for getting published. The adoration of the writer and the experience of celebrityism of the photographed standing behind the podium is for getting published. The love is for the writing. It has to be, or the writing dies.

So I think we spend our lives, human and all, figuring out the meaning of words, figuring more and more that there are so many more meanings to the words we know--like a fractal, but limited, because our lives are limited--like love; like hate; like understand, understandings, etc.