“If one simply wants to make a living by putting words on paper, then the BBC, the film companies and the like are reasonably helpful. But if one wants to be primarily a writer, then, in our society, one is an animal that is tolerated but not encouraged–something rather like a house sparrow–and one gets on better if one realises one’s position from the start.”
George Orwell, “The Cost of Letters” (Horizon, September 1946)
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
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