The most honest author criticism I read today
On February 25, 2026 By thesuccessmanual Topic: Writing
Here's what Mark Twain said about Jane Austen, the godmother of women chick-lit writers:
- 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 beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
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