2.05.2010

Cat fight: Faulkner and Twain edition

Writers are filled with haterade, reader types. Example?
[Mark] Twain himself took it on the chin from fellow Southerner William Faulkner, who called him 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.”
Ha!

3 comments:

  1. Lord Byron liked to refer to William Wordsworth as "Turdsworth"

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  2. You should have heard the things Twain said about Hawthorne!

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  3. I love it when the criticism matches the level of what is being criticized.

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