Do you realize how angry you sound?โ must be one of the most infuriating questions in the language.
Renata AdlerNice criticism is good when it tells you something. A lot of negative "criticism" isn't criticism at all: it's just nasty, "writerly" clichรฉ and invective.
Renata AdlerIt is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
Renata Adler