Comments on: Quotes from the “Angry Writer”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:23:00 +0000

I especially enjoy the Sparks comment. Sparks, who most other writers rightly quickly dismiss as commercial and worthless, comments on the Lord McCarthy?! Unacceptable. Just unacceptable.

By: Angry Authors « Books Are Good

Angry Authors « Books Are Good — Mon, 10 May 2010 16:12:56 +0000

[...] In General, authors on May 10, 2010 at 12:12 pm A good running list of some of the malicious and angry things said by various authors. When you sit down and consider it, really nore of it should be much of a surprise. Most of the [...]

By: Mark Twain’s words to live by. - James Song

Mark Twain’s words to live by. - James Song — Mon, 10 May 2010 09:42:38 +0000

[...] Lit Drift discusses the angry writer. In the words of Mark Twain: I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone. [...]

By: Patricia Goodwin

Patricia Goodwin — Sat, 08 May 2010 14:07:42 +0000

I haven’t read a sentence in a long time.

By: Nikki

Nikki — Sat, 08 May 2010 02:57:59 +0000

No Truman Capote?

By: Writers just don’t get angry like they used to… « Wvumfa's Blog

Writers just don’t get angry like they used to… « Wvumfa's Blog — Fri, 07 May 2010 16:06:59 +0000

[...] just don’t get angry like they used to… Comments like this are heard all the time in Colson Hall. No, not really. We like each other here at the WVU [...]

By: Gripemaster

Gripemaster — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:19:09 +0000

Are women writers ever angry? I guess you haven’t read many interviews with women writers. Without naming names, I know of at least one who was at least as nasty as Gore Vidal to the reviewer. And I know another who treated the workshop members at a major writer’s conference as a group of annoying chimpanzee’s sent to torment her.

I’m willing to believe male writers may, on average, have bigger egos or hotter tempers. But female writers are definitely not immune to writer rage.

By: Selectism | Around the Web | selectism

Selectism | Around the Web | selectism — Fri, 07 May 2010 01:39:01 +0000

[...] 4) Quotes from the “Angry Writer” “Maybe the “angry writer” appeals to us because in an oblique way the idea reminds me of some of the literary greats–yes, Salinger, and also Hemingway and Vonnegut and Twain, among others–writers who generally didn’t give a damn about what people thought of them and weren’t preoccupied with their sales ranking in The New York Times Book Review.” (lit drift) [...]

By: Selectism | Around the Web | Selectism.com

Selectism | Around the Web | Selectism.com — Fri, 07 May 2010 00:27:04 +0000

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By: Bill Peschel

Bill Peschel — Tue, 04 May 2010 19:03:42 +0000

I still like the music composers Max Reger response to the author of a critical review: “I am in the smallest room of the house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.”