For the many, many years I've been opening the door to this Big Closet I've been amazed at our communities ability to heap pain on one another. Maybe it's just what writers do.
I was reading a Bathroom Reader last night ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1607109026?psc=1&redirect=t... ) and found the following.
Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac: "That's not writing, that's typing."
Dorothy Parker on Ayn Rand: "Atlas Shrugged is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
Virgina Woolf on James Joyce: "Ulysses is the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples."
Mark Twain on Jane Austin: "Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone."
Maybe the writers of BC are being kind to each other . . . for writers.
Comments
Paybacks
Every one of those writers was criticized as well. No writer is going to appeal to every one. The important thing is to avoid causing each pain because we didn't think of what we were saying before we hit the send button.
Well....
"Marcel Proust eats worms..." Aldous Huxley
"Oscar Wilde eats worms..." H.G. Wells
"Jane Austen eats worms..." Emily Bronte
"Andrea DiMaggio is a boogerhead..." Andrea DiMaggio
Love, Andrea Lena
AND!!!!!
Andreas D has cooties as well!!!
Who Else???
Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrat
Twain's comment
Mark Twain's comment is kind of a left-handed compliment; he's read Pride and Prejudice more than once and implies that he expects to read it again. :)
I feel that way about some writers too. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Sometimes -- or perhaps often
A person reads a work to rouse his anger, fury, and outrage over the work. As the saying goes, no publicity is bad publicity.
The worst thing an author can do is bore his readers.
Of course, if my writing arouses fury and outrage here, I'll probably be banned.
-- Daphne Xu
Not only writers
Musicians can be quite acerbic with each other. Beethoven said of one composer whose opera he'd just listened to, "Yes, I liked it, I think I might set it to music."
Tchaikovsky on Wagner, "Wagner has some splendid moments in his work, and horrible quarters of an hour."
Angharad
truly funny creative writing
http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B000KKNQBK
the "reviews" for Veet for Men.
rofl
WARNING
both monitor wipes and panty liners needed, extreme humour.
Stupidity is a capital offense. A summary not indictable.
Writers I love
"Peaches" was of course very sweet. Too bad the author is too lazy to write more. "The Gift of the Unicorn" was a magnum opus, and I am sorry that the author is not able to write more. "The Warrior of Batuk" spoke to my dark side in a very seductive way. I despair of ever having a master like that, no one ever wanted me. "Being Christina Chase" ministered to my very conflicted soul. I suspect the author will not write more and I am sorry. "Deception of Choice" helped me to understand a very difficult situation well enough to remove the pistol from my mouth. Not sure that was the best choice, but now there are friends that should not be hurt. Of course we all know that "Bike" made history and in a very positive way. "Battle for Earth" is wonderful, with great writing and it just pisses me off that more of you do not see it. I suppose I will never understand the demographics of this site. My own writing has heart and soul but the writer never learned to write, and has little talent.
The Twain quote
Wow. That's venomous even by his standards. Far more than even his essay on James Fennimore Cooper. Not that it isn't uproariously funny, mind you....
Now I'm going to have to read Austen to find out just what sent his blood pressure soaring.
Livin' A Ragtime Life,
Rachel