The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
Writers have to be careful not to confuse personal attention with the attention that's going towards the book.
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
I think there's a joy to be had in taking readers where they just don't want to go. If you are writing a properly realist novel, then don't blink. Why not see something for what it is and render it truthfully? I find it a good way of going about writing - not to blink.
A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
He who is ashamed would like to force the world not to look at him, not to notice his exposure. He would like to destroy the eyes of the world.
I've never set out to seduce my reader. I don't see him at all clearly.
There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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