If you're going to write a book, who asked you to? It is, in fact, quite an act of ego to sit down in a room, while others are getting on trains and subways, and put one's vision on paper, and then ask others to pay to read it. It's an act of audacity.
—William Gaddis, from an interview by Tom LeClair, conducted in 1980 and included in the essay collection Paper Empire: William Gaddis and the World System.
To be honest, I feel some of the same audacity when blogging—which is why this blog is composed of other people's work.
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