Should writers be nice to each other in print? It’s fun to watch them duke it out.

I still remember the feud between Virginia Woolf and Arnold Bennett, which was amusing to read about, especially from Woolf’s own writing. (She didn’t like H.G. Wells either, because she thought his writing was too “Edwardian.” In other words, his writing was too stuck in a certain format that didn’t focus on the characters of a story.)

In the spirit of this post, I would also recommend this book, a hilarious read about our writing predecessors who weren’t afraid to squirt ink at each other for the sake of criticism.