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Some “professional critics” are doubtless chagrined by J. K. Rowling saying in a recent interview: “How we react to death, how much we fear it. In many ways, all of my characters are defined by their attitude to death.” It is good Rowling said this for the record because critics are often those without an original thought or the talent to do the things they criticize. Ray Bradbury was quite rightly incensed by the supposed literary critics telling him what he really meant in “Fahrenheit 451” as though they were better qualified to tell him what he really meant. And how many people will use a remark when addressing someone seeming not to realize they are telling the other person what that person “really” thinks and believes, or worse, what they should think or believe. How many a great writer and artist must turn over in their graves if they knew how some critics and university professors are telling others what these great writers...
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