“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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