George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Letter to his publisher, John Murray (3 November 1821).
“Indian reviewers don’t read books. They have two days to produce 800 words. They read the prologue and then skim a few pages, then they read all the other reviews. If the first two are negative, you can be sure they will all be negative. If the first two are good, the rest will be good. It’s that low-level, that pathetic. It takes a kind of confidence for a reviewer to have their own opinion about a book. And a lot of people here just don’t care about literary novels.”
Jeet Thayil: Confessions of an Indian Opium-Eater
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