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All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.
Literature, especially poetry, and lyric poetry most of all, is a kind of family joke, with little or no value outside its own language-group.
