#jerk

A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#every #forth #fresh #grow #jerks

People seem to think that you should be willing to speak to them whether they're jerks or not. ↗

— Martha Plimpton

#people #seem #should #speak #them

I've dated jerks, so why not geeks? ↗

— Kelly LeBrock

#geeks #i #jerks #why #why not

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone. ↗

— Mark Twain

#criticism #jerk #reading #writing #want