"The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax."
Alfred Kazin was an American writer and literary critic whose essays and reviews appeared in leading U.S. publications. He is especially known for memoirs and criticism focused on American and immigrant literary experience. He was born on June 5, 1915, and died on June 5, 1998.