“Curiously Dull, Furiously Commonplace, Often Meaningless” (And Other Literary Virtues)
October 10th, 2012 | Writers | journalpulp | 2 Comments“Rat-eyed” Virginia Woolf described Somerset Maugham as. “No man ever put more of his heart and soul into the written word,” said Eudora Welty of William Faulkner. “Curiously dull, furiously commonplace, and often meaningless,” Alfred Kazin said of William Faulkner. “Hemingway never climbed out on a limb and never used a word where the reader […]
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