Patrick Nielsen Hayden - So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being

So many people's school experience contains at least one instance of being looked down upon because they didn't care for one or more of the sacred mutant outcroppings of High Modernism, and they concluded from this that Literature is all about impenetrable stuff that they don't like. That damn Hemingway with his crazy free verse.

- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

source: "Oh No Lev Grossman No". nielsenhayden.com. August 30, 2009.