Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.
Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the face, say,of a Stevensonian! But Jane Austen is so different. She is my favourite author! I read and reread, the mouth open and the mind closed. Shut up in measureless content, I greet her by the name of most kind hostess, while criticism slumbers.
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.
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