"It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow."
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"It's possible to become so comfortable with one's style and structure that one ceases to grow."
"Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature."