Of course the harshest remarks are probably left anonymously on Amazon.com
Ernest Hemingway on William Faulkner: “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
Mark Twain on Jane Austen: “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.”
