A book as dogma

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People say that the writer must respect the reader, that it's the reader that the work is offered to. But if the work is no good, there will be no readers, no good ones anyway. I'd rather have no readers than compromise in what I do and not do it in exactly the way I want to do it. And that happens sometimes. Often there are no readers. But most of the time there are. And good readers too. But even then I don't trust them.