'Nothing but obscenities'
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| Oscar Wilde |
Friedrich Nietzsche on Dante Alighieri:
“A hyena that wrote poetry on tombs.”
Vladimir Nabokov on Fyodor Dostoevsky:
“Dostoevky’s lack of taste, his monotonous dealings with persons suffering with pre-Freudian complexes, the way he has of wallowing in the tragic misadventures of human dignity — all this is difficult to admire.”
Virginia Woolf on Aldous Huxley:
“All raw, uncooked, protesting.”
Joseph Conrad on D.H. Lawrence:
“Filth. Nothing but obscenities.”
Vladimir Nabokov on Joseph Conrad:
“I cannot abide Conrad’s souvenir shop style and bottled ships and shell necklaces of romanticist cliches.”
Dylan Thomas on Rudyard Kipling:
“Mr Kipling … stands for everything in this cankered world which I would wish were otherwise.”
William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway:
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
Oscar Wilde on Alexander Pope:
“There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.”
Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac:
“That’s not writing, that’s typing.”
Virginia Woolf on James Joyce:
“[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.”
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