Reply to a Critic
"Note just what it is about your work the critics don't like -- then cultivate it. That's the part of your work that's individual and worth keeping." -- Jean Cocteau
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy... Submissive to everything, open, listening... Something that you feel will find its own form. --Jack Kerouac, from "Belief and Technique for Modern Prose"
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