An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.
The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party.
'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence.
A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any good, is not an entirely benign entity in the world.
Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.
Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.
As an author, I really hate a reader like me. There's no loyalty.
A writer without a reader doesn't exist.