Aren't you fed up with difficult reading materials?

[Cleanthes]

Poor little Mozart. Does he really think big emotions come from complex orchestration? He thinks I don’t know the expensive musical instruments. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better ones and those are the ones I use: hand clapping, the tambourine and the ocarina.

[stlukesguild]

Ravel, Richard Strauss, Rimsky-Korsakov, or Wagner might have been the better choice for complex orchestration.

[prendrelemick]

I think you're bringing up the issue of context, right?

If the writer is not in full control of his art, then how can he pursue his goals of aesthetic creation? Does he always go for what he himself deems to be aesthetically pleasing?

This thread is splitting into many strands.

I think he must trust his reader and accept that his work is no longer exclusively his once it is published.

[Emil Miller]

In accordance with the title of this thread, an advertiser has put up three novels. Two are by Dan Brown and the third is by Robert Galbraith who turns out to be the pseudonym of JK Rowling. Here's an extract from the the blurb on Rowling's book:

'The case plunges Strike into the world of multimillionaire beauties, rock-star boyfriends, and desperate designers, and it introduces him to every variety of pleasure, enticement, seduction, and delusion known to man'

Ho hum.

[Emil Miller]

This thread is splitting into many strands.

I think he must trust his reader and accept that his work is no longer exclusively his once it is published.

This is an acute observation with which I agree. Here is an extract from my novel 'A Tangled Web', that underlines the
fact that a writer's output becomes public property on publication.

“I've just been speaking to Clarize Lopez the actress and she tells me that Jake Melrose is trying to get the same man who directed Leader of the Pack to direct Voluntary Confessions,” said Jerome exasperatedly. “How can anyone associated with such rubbish be given my story to direct?”
“Jerome, it’s no longer your story. You sold it for two million dollars if I remember rightly.”
“Yes I know, but why can't they produce something worthwhile? These people just go around vandalising other peoples’ work.”
“I just reminded you Jerome that it is no longer your work. If you want to retain the intellectual property rights to your books, you cannot sell them to others.”