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Criticism isn't the same thing as "hatred". I can criticise someone's writing, without any feeling of hatred towards the writer. Why should personal animosity enter into it at all?
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William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway “He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” -- Quoted in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature, edited by Richard Thomas Eldridge I don't understand what the criticism is in the above statement. Why would an author consciously make a reader look up words in a dictionary? |
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I don't see these quotes as objective critiques. For the most part, they're vicious, cheap shots; especially those from Twain and Vidal.
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It's basically the other side of Hemingway's quote, above, and I have to say I think I'm on Hemingway's side in that one.
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Tolstoy wrote an essay trying to prove Shakespeare was bad. Orwell wrote an essay in response, saying history had proved Tolstoy wrong.
And let's not forget "The Lem Incident" where Stanislaw Lem said all Western Sci-Fi authors were crap, apart from Philip K. Dick. Philip Jose Farmer was outraged! And then there is Christopher Preist's expose "The Book on the Edge of Forever" all about Harlan Ellison sitting on the third of the Forbidden Tales trilogy. Not really a criticism of Ellison's writing, but more the fact he had refused to release the book and all the good stories he had locked down under contract. Ellison was outraged! Last edited by Rizla; 05-21-2014 at 01:59 PM. |
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I don't think so. If you have read something about Jane Austen, Twain's distaste about her appears soon.
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Maybe he couldn't finish it. Lol. I thought Twain's comment was the funniest. It's funny because it's mean.
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All of you convinced me I was probably wrong about Twain. I hadn't thought of him starting to read the same book over and over again and never finishing it! LOL
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