“Judd sighed. “I don’t know why people take criticism so seriously. One good creator is worth all the critics who ever lived.” “Criticism is necessary to literature,” Hawke said, and felt a fierce disgust with himself. It was as though he were trying to soothe a homicidal lunatic. Judd said, “Nonsense, criticism is a minor form of entertainment, a sort of piggy-back writing that rides on other men’s work.”
