People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies. They are used to getting things through the eye and the ear. In a small way, literature goes on being written, but few people like it. Once it's bureaucratized by the schoolteachers, the game's up.
The worst that can be said about pornography is that it leads not to anti-social acts but to the reading of more pornography
I don't think contemporary writers spend a lot of time reading each other. Particularly writers of the same nationality.
