“It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.”
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This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.
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It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.
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I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.
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