Goodreads asked Adriano Bulla:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Adriano Bulla Write from your heart. It's true, writing is a craft, and the heart is not enough to write, but put your skills, your craftsmanship, your experience to the service of what your heart tells you to do. Don't worry about pleasing 'target readers' (I loathe the term anyway: readers are not targets), that's a load of rubbish, no one is the same, and if we really were a set of boxes with tags on them, I'm quite sure I would indignantly complain to the Demiurge... The pleasure you'll get in finding other hearts who beat alongside yours is the deepest reward you can ever hope for, even if it means risking not 'pleasing' whatever is in those ridiculously artificial boxes that marketing has so ungallantly imposed upon the world, and it is a universe of infinite dimensions, of Literature. Be courageous, and it takes courage to write something original. Especially nowadays, when, apologies, I have to say this, so many write to 'please the market', Literature, yes, a living entity, with a soul of her own, if I may dare to speak for her, is crying out, shouting out, tearing her pearly hair for original, creative, innovative, personal, and, yes, truly felt words... Give her a hand, we are in this 'business' for Her, at Her service, and we should never sell Her out to the slave auction that is...you guessed, an artificial market. We are Artists, not salespeople. Let us write because we need to, because we have to, and because we owe it to Literature, culture and Mankind. Ours is a service, not a 'business'.

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