A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.
An author who sets about to depict events of the past that have run their course is suspected of wishing to avoid the problems of the present day, of being, in other words, a reactionary.
Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas, and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.
So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable.
Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
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