Richard Ford on reviewing
The FT’s Weekend Magazine had an interview with the American writer Richard Ford. He said he didn’t review books because he didn’t trust his own judgement. He went on:
Giving a book a bad review is like driving along the road and seeing a hitchhiker and deciding that instead of not picking him up you’ll run over him. Sorry, I can’t pick you up, but I will kill you.
I admire his Southern good manners, but if everybody followed his example the books sections would be a lot duller.
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