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Everyone's a critic

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Rachel Caldecott

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Charming comments literary professionals have said to, or about, authors.

“Does it have to be a whale?” To Hermann Melville

“Your efforts are tedious and offensive.” To Ernest Hemingway

“We have conviction that this is the right P.O.V .” To George Orwell

“An irresponsible holiday story that will never sell.” To Kenneth Graham

“An endless nightmare.” To H.G. Wells

“Apparently the author intends it to be funny.” About Joseph Heller

“Not well adapted for our purpose.” To Kurt Vonnegut

“ Overwhelmingly nauseating.” To Vladimir Nabokov

“You just don’t know how to use the English language.” To Rudyard Kipling​
 
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