More Scathing Book Reviews
Two famous writers got in a spat in the late 1940s. You get 50% of your bet for each of the two authors involved in this quote.
"Poor [Author]. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use. Did you read his last book? It’s all sauce-writing now, but he was good once. Before the sauce, or when he knew how to handle it."
Hemingway and Faulkner