Pax Nortona – A Blog by Joel Sax
From the Land of the Lost Blunderbuss
A couple of quotes
Posted on April 7, 2003 in Writing
I’m not sure that I’d go as far as this:
Literary success of any kind is made by refusing to do what publishers want, by refusing to write what the public wants, by refusing to accept any popular standard, by refusing to write anything to order.
Lafacadio Hearn
A different way of looking at criticism (good criticism):
Insects sting, not in malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood, not our pain.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I think I’m already there:
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any work of art implies.
John Dos Passos
