Matchstick

New York City
© Paulo Barcellos Jr.

Read a Book
Plant a Tree

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
-- Kurt Vonnegut

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
-- Brendan Francis Behan

[My play] was rejected by every Broadway producer in terms so outraged that I determined never to write another one, thus saving myself years of futile effort and frustration. [...] But this glimpse of my past monstrosity has made me so grateful to those I once thought cruel that I shall go on yelling "tripe" whenever tripe is served.
-- Theater critic Larry Mackay, Please Don't Eat the Daisies

...to write is human, to edit is divine.
-- Stephen King