Writers refusing requests: a brief thread.

To begin with, Oscar Wilde: “I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.”
“I would rather die”: Harold Pinter
Hannah Arendt hates to be so difficult.
E.B. White has secret reasons.
Edmund Wilson covers all the bases.
“A writer should not allow himself to be turned into an institution.” Sartre, on refusing the Nobel Prize.
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