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February 02, 2001
"How much easier it is to be
critical than to be correct." - Benjamin Disraeli,
Earl of Beaconsfield (Speech on January 24, 1860)
"A person who publishes a book
willfully appears before the populace with his pants down . . . If it is a good book
nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him." - Edna St.
Vincent Millay
"The kind of thing only an accelerated culture like ours could
have come up with: an instant classic." - Julian Dibbell,
Amazon.com
"No passion in the world is equal
to the passion to alter someone else's draft." - H. G. Wells
"That's not writing.
It's typing." -
Truman Capote
"I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is
preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on a full suit of armor and attacked
a hot fudge sundae or a banana split." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"If Thomas Edison invented electric
light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as ‘candle making industry
threatened’." - Newt Gingrich
"It was a book to kill time for
those who like it better dead." - Dame Rose
Macaulay (from quotations compiled by John Hewitt)
"This is not a novel to be tossed
aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." - Dorothy Parker (from quotations compiled by John Hewitt)
"I am sitting in the smallest room in my house. I have your review in front of
me. Soon it will be behind me." - Max
Reger
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