Literary Shocker Quote by Wolcott Gibbs Download Open image ““a … literary shocker, designed to upend the credulous matrons —Wolcott Gibbs”” — Wolcott Gibbs ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Credulous Matrons Literary Shocker Matrons Wolcott Shocker Upend Credulous
“There is a literature that does not reach the voracious mass. It is the work of creators, issued from a real necessity in the… — Tristan Tzara Copy Share Image
“No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“A blatant falsification, brought to dwell perpetually in the Agency archives, a stain in the shape of words!” — Jedediah Berry Copy Share Image
“Cotton Mather lusted all his life for the presidency of Harvard, a post his father had held, and which the son affected to despise, especially after others were chosen; he was a prig and a meddler; an unscrupulous ideologue and a windy orator; a scribbler who praised simplicity in flowery circumlocutions, so anxious to see his production in print that… — Peter Gay Copy Share
“I cannot understand the people who take literature seriously; but I can love them, and I do. Out of my love I warn them to keep clear of this book. It is a collection of crude and shapeless papers upon current or rather flying subjects; and they must be published pretty much as they stand. They were written, as a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share
“Many authors, as Hanck in particular had noted, were basically little people, spiritually shriveled, atrophied and care-worn personalities. Petty. Vulnerable and frightened. They needed help in their daily lives in order to seem bigger, or at least like everyone else. They sought compensation in poetry, resorted to words because words seemed harmless and free of prejudice; they didn't bite, they… — Klas Ostergren Copy Share
As a piece of writing, The Elementary Particles feels like a bad, self-conscious pastiche of Camus, Foucault and Bret Easton Ellis. And as a… — Michiko Kakutani Copy Share Image
“The writing seemed like the books that held it; crumbly and antique and bearing the stink of centuries. Still, it was compelling. His voice… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
“The shock was akin to that of buying, out of duty, a novel written by a dull and uninspired acquaintance and finding there passages… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“Good writers are like magpies, attracted to shiny things and storing away treasures - pieces of dialogue and experience - which pop up from… — Jane Wilson-Howarth Copy Share Image
“Be warned. This book has no literary merit whatsoever. It it a lurid piece of nonsense, convoluted, implausible, peopled by unconvincing characters, written in… — Jonathan Barnes Copy Share Image
“Even as he printed the words, he imagined people reading them, people moved by his loneliness and disappointment, even by his wretched spelling, the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything… — Wolcott Gibbs Copy Share Image
It is my indignant opinion that 90 percent of the moving pictures exhibited in America are so vulgar, witless and dull that it is… — Wolcott Gibbs Copy Share Image
