新概念第四册 Lesson 39 What every writer wants

　　This temptation to cover the distance between himself and the reader, to study his image in the sight of those who do not know him, can be his undoing: he has begun to write to please.

　　A young English writer made the pertinent observation a year or two back that the talent goes into the first draft, and the art into the drafts that follow. For this reason also the writer, like any other artist, has no resting place, no crowd or movement in which he may take comfort, no judgment from outside which can replace the judgment from within. A writer makes order out of the anarchy of his heart; he submits himself to a more ruthless discipline than any critic dreamed of, and when he flirts with fame, he is taking time off from living with himself, from the search for what his world contains at its inmost point.

　　JOHN LE CARRE What every writer wants from Harper's

　　New words and expressions 生词和短语

　　confess

　　v. 承认

　　inspiration

　　n. 灵感

　　Kashmir

　　n. 克什米尔

　　interweave

　　v. 交织

　　afresh

　　adv. 重新

　　discern

　　v. 辨明，领悟

　　indescribable

　　adj. 无法描述的