diary livejournal fossils
CRITIC: It's not good enough. Your friends are just being polite. No one will take it seriously. They probably won't even like it. You don't really even know the rules of good writing. You misspell elixir every time you write it.
SELF: So when's the last time you wrote a book?
CRITIC: I would not stoop to ad mediocrity to the great cannon of Western Culture.
SELF: No, you just sit there and criticize every new creation, every innovation, until it all stops and you are left with your tired and dusty classics. You leave it to time, the worms, and the spiders to make art for you. Thank you for your input. Without you, I might've ended up a real writer, and where would I be then? Busy writing "good" books on contract, one after another. Or in some staid lecture hall, feeling full of myself.
Instead of like this, stumbling along, mostly out of my mind, scribbling whatever comes.</em