Kudos for this piece. Indeed, great writing is a lonely enterprise. And yes:

"The writer necessarily lives a life on the fringe. They are an outcast, an oddity — a stray sheep. Perhaps if sharks or reptiles were made as intelligent as humans, they’d all be writers, but this is not the case, so we find instead an exception to the rule in an anti-social individual amid a social species". Beautiful metaphoric analogy.