July 7, 2011

All authors are cowards in certain respects. They speak once and for all, without having to hear and respond to how others react to what they say. Readers are cowards of a different sort; they argue with texts that cannot rebut. In short, the literary world is made-up of cowards on all sides, trumped only by the critic. And it is thanks to this that anything that is at all daring is said among us.