“Good Taste will put you out of business,” [Vonnegut] declared.… “For some reason almost all good writers are drop-outs,” he said. “English departments have never produced a (good) writer.” He suggested that this is because people learn what is considered “good taste” at a stage “when they themselves aren’t capable of doing very good work. So what they learn makes them hate what they write. And they stop before they ever get started.”
