Friday, June 15, 2018
Few versus Many Readers
Henry Miller (1891-1980), "Autobiographical Note," The Cosmological Eye (New York: New Directions, 1961), pp. 365-371 (at 371):
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I want to be read by less and less people; I have no interest in the life of the masses, nor in the intentions of the existing governments of the world. I hope and believe that the whole civilised world will be wiped out in the next hundred years or so. I believe that man can exist, and in an infinitely better, larger way, without "civilisation".I would have written "fewer and fewer" instead of "less and less". But I'm just a nit-picking pedant, not a famous writer. On writing for a small, select audience, see:
- Gómez Dávila on Writing for Oneself
- Few, One, or None
- Few, One, or None Revisited
- Write the Book You Want To Read
- An Audience of One
- Tolkien on Writing for Oneself
- To Write for Oneself
- Soliloquies
- Mihi et Musis
- Says I to Myself
- A Garbled Footnote
- For the Sole Benefit of the Performer
