“A hyena that wrote poetry on tombs.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche on Dante Alighieri
“Dostoevky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity — all this is difficult to admire.”
— Vladimir Nabokov on Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“All raw, uncooked, protesting.”
— Virginia Woolf on Aldous Huxley
“Filth. Nothing but obscenities.”
— Joseph Conrad on D.H. Lawrence
“I cannot abide Conrad’s souvenir shop style and bottled ships and shell necklaces of romanticist cliches.”
— Vladimir Nabokov on Joseph Conrad
“Mr Kipling … stands for everything in this cankered world which I would wish were otherwise.”
— Dylan Thomas on Rudyard Kipling
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
— William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway
“There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.”
— Oscar Wilde on Alexander Pope
“That’s not writing, that’s typing.”
— Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac
“[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.”
— Virginia Woolf on James Joyce
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