"One battle doesn't make a campagin, but..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway
One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.
More by Ernest Hemingway
“I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.”
“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.”
“The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own.”
More on Criticism
“I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.”
“In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies”
“What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can. I've been criticized on many, many occasions, because of - acquaintances, and what have you.”
More on Literature
“Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe.”
“John Barth, I think, was really a writer of my own age and somewhat of my own temperament, although his books are very different from mine, and he has been a spokesman for the very ambitious, long, rather academic novel. But I don't think that what he is saying, so far as I understand it, is so very different from what I'm saying.”
“Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”