Show j Writers Should Respect Says By NEAL The only true and final judge of literature is j audience Wallace Steg told he L Conference Wednesday The conference m Mv 5 to 16 in the Union building with direst v m L Science 1 nr is best known in Aa world at large as a sensitive 2 accomplished writer of f about Utah Samer is a former student and Sty member of the University li and is now director of the I Writing center at We need to come to terms with the Sc should ride it a little in quiet L not overturn it any We to learn what man has in to be aware of our and adjust to The fob of the revolutionaries is finished if they only knew We lave an anxious world which needs not a smug world that needs In it is a mistaken idea that only critics and experts are capable of With an audience of considerable size and weight and no special axe to some works rise to the surface and some We should judge net on the basis of skill but on the basis of appeal to To scorn an audience pretend it doesn't matter whether anyone hears you or not is to condemn yourself to work under a bell A work of art conceived without thought of who may see it or hear it is a message in code If artist is not on a dead an i man in search of an he is If he does not want the biggest audience he can get without ceasing to be honestly he is crazy the speaker There are two general kinds of artists and both have functions in human On the opposite end of the pole from the idol is the the syn-j the bringer the I revealer of breathing mon experiences of It need not be the whole truth or only truth but it is a truth and for our times an important A good many he pursue a course in thinking that leads away from a. happy marriage between the writer and his Some people with great talent assume because they are great artists with a capital they have the right to be neurotic and free from all ordinary If one holds his audience in no amount of verbal talent will save him from being If he cannot find an audience worthy of he talks to himself and that is the ultimate sterility explained is nothing sadder in the orld than a writer's writer or a poet's Who wants to be one It is a literary spinsterhood that most people would not Let us not have any intellectual arrogance speaking with tongues of the Waiter's Conference angels tongues of men are enough and a membership in the poor damn human race is a sufficient basis for artistic |