“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
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Precisely as you wish | QOTD
“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
―
Memoir of a Writer 
Amen to this. My students believe that interpretation is an open field, in which they can choose any direction. I tell them that a writer is like someone stranded on a desert island, and what he or she writes is a message in a bottle. And the message? “Find me here.” The best readers know how to travel.
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