Famous authors on famous authors

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Mark Twain on Jane Austin:

I havnt any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them.  I often want to criticize Jane Austin, but her book madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read 'pride and prejudice' I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.


Oscar Wilde on Alexander Pope:

There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.


Voltaire on Jean-Jacque Rousseau:

I have read, monsieur, your new book against the human race. I thank you for it.  No one has ever used so much intellect to prove us beasts. A desire seizes us to walking four paws when we read your work. Nevertheless, as it is more than sixty years since i lost the habit, I feel, unfortunately, that it is impossible for me to resume it


W. H. Auden on Edgar Allen Poe

An unmanly sort of man whose love-life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse.

[busker]

Voltaire was the original burn artist!!!

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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


Ernest Hemingway on William Faulkner:

Poor Faulkner.  Does he really think big emotions come from big words?


Gore Vidal on Truman Capote:

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.


Virginia Woolf on James Joyce:

(Ulysses) is the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

[RiverNotch]

i love wilde's read there

pope's heroic couplets are technically perfect

so perfect, reading his iliad is listening to a lullaby