Literary gatherings, cocktail parties and the like, are a social nightmare because writers have no "shop" to talk. Writers have no impersonal professional interests. The literary equivalent of talking shop would be writers reciting their own work at each other, an unpopular procedure for which only very young writers have the nerve.
—W. H. Auden, "Writing," in The Dyer's Hand, p. 14.
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