the great attacks on literature
29th June 2017 | for Creatives | books, create for YOURSELF, artist integrity, writing, reviews, feedback/criticism/rejection, creative freedom, Salman Rushdie |
"I used to worry about [negative criticism of my work] until I realized that if you look at the great attacks on literature in the last hundred years or so, they were almost all carried out by people who had not read the work in question."
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