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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 a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” -
Ernest Hemingway according to Vladimir Nabokov
As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early ‘forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it. -
Harold Bloom on J.K. Rowling
Examiner Article How to read ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.
