Hans Christian Anderson once got a bad review and laid face down in the dirt and cried
Yeah, but not on Twitter.
And Oscar Wilde had a number of verbose and exquisitely-tailored means of telling critics to go soak their heads.
Writers are mercurial and variably mature no matter the decade they're in.
So what you’re saying is good authors [too] who once used better words now only use four-letter words writing prose? That anything goes?











