Complaints Quote by Irving Howe Download Open image “The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.” — Irving Howe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Complaints Reading
I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
“For the critics who think Chesterton frivolous or 'paradoxical' I have to work hard to feel even pity; sympathy is out of the question.” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes himself as receptive as he can. But for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And if the reader has no taste for what he reads, all the time is wasted — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
I'm harsh on myself. But let's be honest: I'm not as harsh as the online one-star critic who says, 'This book is boring and… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's worth saying again: One reader's discomfort should never stand in the way of another reader's survival. — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
There's something to be said for an author who clearly respects a reader. — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
“The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the job done.” — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
“I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children". When the review of that book… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
Anyway, when I finished the book, I handed it in, didn't want to read it again, but when it finally was in print I… — Bob Colacello Copy Share Image
One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to undervalue, the… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
Modernity consists in a revolt against the prevailing style, an unyielding rage against the official order. — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
I was in a garden at the Rodin Museum. For a few minutes I was alone, sitting on a bench between two long hedges… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality. — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
The most glorious vision of the intellectual life is still that which is loosely called humanist: the idea of a mind committed yet dispassionate,… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
“The usual short story cannot have a complex plot, but it often has a simple one resembling a chain with two or three links.… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
“There is utopia and utopia. The kind imposed by an elite in the name of a historical imperative—that utopia is hell. It must lead… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too. — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable. — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The proliferation of right-to-carry laws throughout the states has drawn plaintive complaints from the criminal element. They feel that it makes their profession too… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the law of increase, and complaint is the law of decrease. — Florence Scovel Shinn Copy Share Image
Wherever I am, I see the yoke on women in some form or another. On some it sits easy for they are but beasts… — Abby May Alcott Copy Share Image
My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. This is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
A prudent pharmacist often vends something for your complaint. But wine merchant you do this invariably. — Thomas Campion Copy Share Image
“If you believe that the world is conspiring against you, it will just do that.” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
