The Importance of Dissatisfaction

He is constantly at war with himself for what he probably knows he can accomplish, but doesn't seem to be able to get to where he wants to get as a writer. And so there is this weird way in which his sense of dissatisfaction itself is like a fertile source of inspiration. So the sense in which he is kind of dramatizing, sometimes even doing kind of schtick comic exaggeration, self dramatization, heightening the emotional pitch of what he is writing for literary effect,. That's all interest me a lot more than kind of pinning down. Well, how authentic is his suffering here? Is the headache really that bad, or has he just started to find some really