and still cannot understand the exact outline of the vision before them.

　　For the same reason, writers talk endlessly about their own books,

　　digging up hidden meanings, super-imposing new ones, begging response from those around them.

　　Of course a writer doing this is misunderstood:

　　he might as well try to explain a crime or a love affair.

　　He is also, incidentally, an unforgivable bore.

　　This temptation to cover the distance between himself and the reader,

　　to study his image in the sight of those who do not know him,

　　can be his undoing:he has begun to write to please.

　　A young English writer made the pertinent observation a year or two back

　　that the talent goes into the first draft, and the art into the drafts that follow.

　　For this reason also the writer, like any other artist,has no resting place,

　　no crowd or movement in which he may take comfort,

　　no judgment from outside which can replace the judgment from within.

　　A writer makes order out of the anarchy of his heart;

　　he submits himself to a more ruthless discipline than any critic dreamed of,

　　and when he flirts with fame, he is taking time off from living with himself,

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