Gina Ochsner - The word "nice" makes me break out in hives. When someone tells me that the

The word "nice" makes me break out in hives. When someone tells me that they think my work is nice I want to take knitting needles and shove them in my ear canals. I have the same almost physical reaction to the word "interesting." The word is vague enough to mean anything and nothing. Like nice, interesting means the reader had zero connection and zero emotional response to anything in the work.

- Gina Ochsner

source: Source: www.salon.com

topic: Nice, Mean, Emotional