Composition

That's my story: I labored and I was tortured. You perceive what it means to compose? No, thank God, you do not! I think about you've got under no circumstances written to order, by the yard, and have under no circumstances expert that hellish torture. Having obtained prematurely from the Russky Viestnik rather a lot money (Horror! 4,500 rubles). I completely hoped to start out with of the yr that poesy would not desert me, that the poetical idea would flash out and develop artistically in path of the highest of the yr and that I ought to realize satisfying all people. All by the summer time season and all by the autumn I chosen diversified ideas (just a few of them most ingenious), nonetheless my experience enabled me always to essentially really feel beforehand the falsity, downside, or ephemerality of this or that idea. Ultimately I fixed on one and commenced working, I wrote a wonderful deal; nonetheless on the 4th of December I threw all of it to the devil. I assure you that the novel may have been tolerable; nonetheless I purchased extraordinarily sick of it just because it was tolerable, and by no means positively good— I did not want that. FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY  Visit Source...