write for the drawer

Meaning: (idiomatic)Towritea work forposterityor forfriendsthat one cannotpublishexcept assamizdat.2013, Martin Cruz Smith,Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel, page19:It was a middle-aged intellectual crowd. Publishers who abandoned their writers, writers whowrote for the drawer, artists who had become wealthy by turning Social Realism into kitsch.2015, Rosemary Sullivan,Stalin's Daughter,→ISBN, pages341–342:It seemed suddenly miraculous that she was here, in America, holding in her hands a book that she hadwritten for the drawerfour years earlier in Moscow.2016,Our Mythical Childhood, page351:Since I first began to write I had towrite for the drawer.

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