Tag Archive | William Faulkner
My Six Favourite Literary Insults
Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
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,…
William Faulkner on what a writer would sacrifice for a good poem — Quotes for writers (and people who like quotes)
Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
The artist’s only responsibility is his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one…. If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The “Ode on a Grecian Urn” is worth any number of old ladies. – William Faulkner photo credit: Cruscat…
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