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Mean things authors say about each other
Flavorwire has assembled a collection of the 30 meanest things well-regarded writers have said about each other over the years. Some of my favorites are collected below: 21. Lord Byron on John Keats (1820) "Here are Johnny Keats' piss-a-bed poetry, and three novels by God knows whom... No more Keats, I entreat: flay him alive; if some of you don't I must skin him myself: there is no bearing the drivelling idiotism of the Mankin." 17. Martin Amis on Miguel Cervantes "Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences, and terrible cronies. When the experience is over, and the old boy checks out at last (on page 846 -- the prose wedged tight, with no breaks for dialogue), you will shed tears all right; not tears of relief or regret but tears of pride. You made it, despite all that 'Don Quixote' could do." 9. Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac "That's not writing, that's typing." 1. D.H. Lawrence on James Joyce (1928) "My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest stewed in the juice of deliberate, journalistic dirty-mindedness." The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults In History (via RobertHoge)...
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