Afkeurbriewe

Daar is bitter min skrywers wat nie vertroud is met afkeurbriewe nie, selfs dié wat vandag as genies beskou word. 

  

Sylvia Plath (27 Okt. 1932 - 11 Feb. 1963)

"There certainly isn't enough genuine talent for us to take notice."

Rudyard Kipling (30 Des. 1865 - 18 Jan. 1936)

"I'm sorry Mr. Kipling, but you just don't know how to use the English language."

J.G. Ballard (15 Nov. 1930 - 19 April 2009)

"The author of this book is beyond psychiatric help."

Emily Dickinson (10 Des. 1830 - 15 Mei 1886)

"Your poems are quite as remarkable for defects as for beauties and are generally devoid of true poetical qualities."

Ernest Hemingway (21 Julie 1899 - 2 Julie 1961)

Vir Torrents of Spring: "It would be extremely rotten taste, to say nothing of being horribly cruel, should we want to publish it."