The writer who does not want to be read and is diminished by an audience

‘There’s a whole class of writers who don’t want to be read,’ Don DeLillo claimed  ... What you want to express is the violence of your desire not to be read ... If you’re in this class what you have to do is either not publish or make sure your work leaves readers strewn along the margins.’ And: ‘The writer is working against the age and so he feels some satisfaction in not being widely read. He is diminished by an audience.