Nice 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 AdlerI think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.
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