The death of literature
There are countless books offering advice on writing for publication. They deal with fiction, non-fiction, business writing, scientific and technical writing, and popular writing.
But what of literature?
On writing
Two comments of Schopenhauer's beg to be repeatedly revived:
"Every deep-thinking mind necessarily has the impulse, for the sake of its own satisfaction, to retain its thoughts and reduce them to the greatest possible clarity and definition, and consequently to embody them in words. But this is only perfectly attained in writing, for the written delivery is essentially different from the verbal, since it alone admits the highest precision, concision, and the most pregnant brevity, thus becoming a pure ektypos of thought."
"Thoughts reduced to paper are nothing more than the footprint of a wayfarer in the sand; one sees well enough the way which he has taken, but in order to know what he saw on the way we must use our own eyes."