Be kind and considerate with your criticism. . . . It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
Source: quoted by Ken Kesey, in The New York Times, 31 Dec 1989.
-- Malcolm Cowley, (Aug 24 1898-1989), US critic, author; He was assistant editor of the New Republic, 1929-44; wrote Flowering of New England and the autobiographical Exiles Return, 1934.