Literary Dislike Quotes

I disagree with everything John Updike has ever said.

Like any other person who reads a ton of books, I hate many, many books. Oh, how I hate them. I have performed dramatic readings of the books I hate. I have little hate summaries. I have hate impressions. I can act out, scene by hateful scene, some of these books. I can perform silent hate charades.

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.

The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.

People like Ian McEwan and Jonathan Franzen completely bore me.

I will not be quoting Hemingway anytime soon, nor will I ever read another one of his books. And if he were still alive, I would write him a letter right now and threaten to strangle him dead with my bare hands just for being so glum. No wonder he put a gun to his head, like it says in the introductory essay.

I think that Shakespeare is a s***. Absolute s***! He may have been a genius for his time, but I just can't relate to that stuff. "Thee and thous" - the guy sounds like a faggot.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.

I've hated poetry ever since I was at school. I include Shakespeare in that. I don't understand the obsession with him!

We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry.

Shakespeare didn't work at all for me.