Anais Nin continues to discuss publication of her diary and fears associated with it. Her primary fear is hurting others because she has written the diary uncensored, as if no one would ever read it. Many people have what she calls a "horror of exposure" and don't want to be in the diary, or they want to read and approve what she has written about them before publication.
Another fear is how literary critics will respond. They have been so negative towards her novels; will they react the same way to her diary? Anais herself has a "horror of exposure" to the maliciousness of the world. She knows this fear is minor, however, as every artist has taken this risk as they bring their work to the world.
On the other hand, Anais Nin has faith in her diary and feels it is her best writing. She feels the introspection documented in her diary is her method of accomplishing her life's journey of self-creation. She disagrees with the concept that diary writing is narcissistic or neurotic. She is simply obsessed with portraying her life's experience and is driven to get the diary published before she dies.
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