If this work seems so threatening, this is because it isn't simply eccentric or strange, but competent, rigorously argued, and carrying conviction.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.
It may be tripe, but it's my tripe - and I do urge other authors to resist encroachments on their brain-children and trust their own judgment rather than that of some zealous meddler with a diploma in creative punctuation who is just dying to get into the act.
This demonstration of power, indifferent to the law, is highly dangerous.
No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
If you define eccentricity as creativity, then yes, creativity is eccentricity.
My work is a self-portrait of my mind, a prism of my convictions.
A strength to harm is perilous in the hand of an ambitious head.
Of course all novelists are egomaniacs and want to draw everyone to their fold just like any other preacher. The snake-oil peddler, the false prophet, all of this is fascinating to me. But I certainly hope that I'm more humane than that.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.