Criticism
Calling Kingsolver a master of “Calamity Writing” in The New Republic, Lee Siegel wrote that she offers “the mere appearance of goodness as a substitute for honest art.” He also characterized her as an “easy, humorous, competent, syrupy writer has been elevated to the ranks of the greatest political novelists of our time.”
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Famous quotes containing the word criticism:
“I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)
“A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake prestige through being mistaken for good work. It is essentially negative, it is something that has not come through. But over bad criticism one has a sense of real calamity.”
—Rebecca West (1892–1983)