LYC Ch 2

Chapter two in Letters to a Young Contrarian was a short chapter, and therefore only one passage really stuck out to me.

With much less eloquence, this is what I have been telling writing classes for years.

You must feel not what you want to but that you have to. It's worth emphasizing to, 

because here is a relationship,inexact to be sure but a relationship, between this desire

or need and the ambition to rely upon internal exile, or dissent; the decision to

live at a slight acute angle to society.

I chose this quote because this one line really stuck out to me especially in the state that my life is going through right now. "You must feel not what you want to but that you have to." One's feelings and emotions are uncontrollable and even if you may think you are controlling your feelings on the outside what is going on inside your mind may be completely different. That is what we get with writers, what they write is the actual feelings they experience and not the feelings they "want" to experience. One will not make up their feelings about something to write what they think people want to hear, but in fact they write about what they are actually feeling and the audience can interpret it and dislike the writing or like the writing.