Quotes by Burroughs, William S.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from th >>

America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the s >>

Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't m >>

Quotations about Critics and Criticism

Give me the critic bred in Nature's school, who neither talks by rote, >>

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. >>

He who throws dirt always loses ground. >>

Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.

Burroughs, William S.