It’s not all elegant sentences and good taste in the literary world…sometimes words can wound and sometimes they can bite back…
Mark Twain on Jane Austen
I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
William Faulkner on Mark Twain
A hack writer who would not have been considered fourth rate in Europe, who tricked out a few of the old proven sure fire literary skeletons with sufficient local color to intrigue the superficial and the lazy.
William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway
He has never been known to use…
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These are priceless! I’m keeping them handy for a “rainy” day. Shared 🙂
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Why not do a google search and find even MORE Tina 😀 😀 😀
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None of us need to feel bad now. 😀
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😀 😀 😀
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My favorite comment even though I must confess I have NO idea to whom she was referring, comes from the marvelous Dorothy Parker… “This book should not be tossed aside lightly, it should be thrown with great force.”
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LOLOLOL Now THAT is how to ‘put down’ a bad book Annette 😀 😀 😀
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She used her wit to it’s fullest potential, such a talent, a truly great mind unleashed on an unsuspecting public.
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Me being me, I had to Google it and this wonderful insult was apparently prompted by Ayn Rand’s ‘Atlas Shrugged.’
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LOL Now THAT’S thorough Wendy 😀
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In my ‘other life’ I was an asset research analyst for several years. If something’s online, I can usually find it. 😉 I’m an ‘inquiring minds want to know’ type of person! (Yes, I even looked up the difference between ‘inquire’ and ‘enquire.’ LOL!)
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LOL – I must remember that next time I need some research done and I’m too busy to do it myself Wendy 😀
BTW – when will you be sending me another article? It can be about any topic you’d like to share (it will keep you in the public mind – that’s part of Marketing 😀 😀 😀 )
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I’d be happy to assist! I get such an adrenalin rush when I find interesting things. 😀
I’ve been asked by a few people about the ins and outs of narration for audio books. Do you think that would be an engaging topic? As an author as well, I have perspectives from both sides.
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YES PLEASE WENDY – that would be a GREAT topic for an article – helpful, keeps you in the public mind, gives an opportunity to display your works and links again and I can link it to your Guest article. 😀
Don’t forget to send it to the email in my submissions guidelines (tab at the top of the page) 😀
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