Stifled by Success

[Dave Monroe]

"... Roth never seemed worried that he was allowing his novels to be
influenced by this noisy engagement with his own celebrity. Conversely
J. D. Salinger and later Thomas Pynchon allowed celebrity to push them
into long periods of silence, as if success had forced them to become
austere. But whether happy to join the scrimmage or appalled by the
idea of being contaminated, all these writers are inevitably changed
by the reception of their work and removed from the atmosphere of
their initial inspiration."

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/mar/12/writers-stifled-by-success/
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