Recognition - Outstanding View from Cynthia Ozick

Within the fair use rules, I'll tempt you with the lead of this essay called "Writers, Visible and Invisible"...

"Writers’ invisibility has little or nothing to do with Fame, just as Fame has little or nothing to do with Literature. (Fame merits its capital F for its fickleness, Literature its capital L for its lastingness.) Thespians, celebrities and politicians, whose appetite for bottomless draughts of public acclaim, much of it manufactured, is beyond any normal measure, may feed hotly on Fame – but Fame is always a product of the present culture: topical and variable, hence ephemeral. Writers are made otherwise. What writers prize is simpler, quieter and more enduring than clamorous Fame: it is recognition."

For the rest of it, go here: http://www.standpointmag.co.uk./node/390/full

Malcolm

This is an awesome essay. I read it this morning and sent it right off to a writer friend of mine. The words she quotes from Rilke are more of those I have taped over my desk. I have read his Letters to a Young Poet about a zillion times.
Thanks for not letting me miss it!

As always, Malcolm, !

Thanks, Zada.

Maybe it's just me, but I think the best form of recognition is having your name on a publisher's check.

A publisher's check. Hmm, I wonder what those look like.

I like those lines from Rilke as well, Susan.

Malcolm

Dick Stodghill wrote:

Maybe it's just me, but I think the best form of recognition is having your name on a publisher's check.

Money is always a good motivator!