I love this, found in the Introduction to the book I am currently reading → McTeague, by Frank Norris.The author said this to reviewer Isaac F. Marcosson on March 14, 1899: “What pleased me most in your review of McTeague was the ‘distaining all pretensions to style.’ It is precisely what I try most to avoid. I detest ‘fine writing,’ ‘rhetoric,’ ‘elegant English,’ – tommyrot. Who cares for fine style! Tell your yarn and let your style go to the devil. We don’t want literature, we want life.”
Have a great Wednesday!
*rofl*
ReplyDeleteLittle tisdasteful brat of a critic!
P.S.:
W.g.t.w.m.L?
My answer: Still trying to figure this one out. *phew* "L" perchance referring to "The Lord"???