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Well, there’s my way to do it, which includes writing dirty stories, talking dirty on the phone and featuring hot writers such as Jerotic, Pervert Savant, Sabrina Morgan, The Provocateur, Submissive Savant and Porno Person.
Then there’s the kind of Smut Slinging which is downright nasty and makes me glad after all that I’m not famous — that I’m just here in my own little corner of the Internet, doing my own quiet, little thing my own dirty little way:
Writers on other Writers
“I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me." − Charles Darwin
"Jonathan Swift was a monster gibbering shrieks, and gnashing imprecations against mankind, …" − William Thackeray
"Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel organ is to music" − William Thackeray
"Shelley should not be read, but inhaled through a gas pipe" − Lionel Trilling
"This awful Whitman. This post-mortem poet . . . with the private soul leaking out of him all the time." − Lionel Trilling
"[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples." − Virginia Wolff
"[Henry James was] one of the nicest old ladies I ever met." − William Faulkner
"Reading Proust is like bathing in someone else’s dirty water." − Alexander Woollcott
"[Dylan Thomas was] an outstandingly unpleasant man, one who cheated and stole from his friends and peed on their carpets." − Kingsley Amis
"[George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralizing on the conditions in the handkerchief industry." − Cyril Connolly
"[Hemingway had] a literary style of wearing false hair on the chest" − Max Eastman
"[Gertrude Stein] was a past master in making nothing happen very slowly" − Clifton Fadiman
"[Auden was] an engaging, bookish, American talent, too verbose to be memorable and too intellectual to be moving" − Philip Larken
"That’s not writing, that’s typing" − Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac
"It is only fair to Allen Ginsberg to remark on the utter lack of decorum of any kind in this dreadful little volume" − John Hollander on Howl
"[Alexander Solzhenitsyn] is a bad novelist and a fool" − Gore Vidal
"[Writers are ] schmucks with Underwoods" − Jack Warner
"[Rod McKuen’s] poetry is not even trash" − Karl Shapiro
"A sausage machine, a perfect sausage machine." − Agatha Christie on Agatha Christie
And thanks to PQS for hooking me up. Although you’ve been known to criticize my prose and poetry time or two, you always do it just between you and me … and with much adoration and affection. Which is probably smart of you. (*wink*)
xo, Angela
What a great collection of quotations. I particularly admired Capote’s views on Kerouac. Thanks to our literary doyenne.
When you actually try to do it, reading Darwin is boring too!
Ah, don’t worry about it Angela. You’ve got some good stuff out there. Just stay clear of dead writers.
One more thing. I’d rather read your work than most of these guys on most days. In fact, every day.