Latest Renata Adler Quotes from Interviews

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• I think maybe writers come from different planets. I mean, not in any sense as extravagant as Baryshnikov. But there are some writers who understand each other this way and others who understand each other that way. Then there's this great herd, the "herd of independent minds."

  Renata Adler

  Mean, Independent, Thinking

  Interview with Alice Gregory, www.believermag.com. December 12, 2012.

• Nice criticism is good when it tells you something. A lot of negative "criticism" isn't criticism at all: it's just nasty, "writerly" cliché and invective.

  Renata Adler

  Nice, Criticism, Negative

  Interview with Alice Gregory, www.believermag.com. December 12, 2012.

• There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers.

  Renata Adler

  Different, Coincidence, Type

  Interview with Alice Gregory, www.believermag.com. December 12, 2012.