Your #Aphorism of the Day: how we rate authors…

While an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance, and when he is dead we rate them by his best.

Dr Samuel Johnson

Welcome to Zena’s aphorism month! Read more about why I’m celebrating aphorisms (as well as five facts you really should know about aphorisms): here.

Zena Shapter

Zena Shapter writes from a castle in a flying city hidden by a thundercloud, reaching across age and genre into the heart of storytelling. A multi-award-winning author of speculative and contemporary fiction, she teaches writing at festivals, libraries and schools, judges various literary awards, mentors and edits other writers, and encourages everyone to value the importance of creativity. She loves movies, frogs, chocolate, and potatoes, though not at the same time!

2 Comments:

  1. Heh. It seems literary criticism hasn’t changed much in the past two hundred years!

    • He he. I think this has been the most popular aphorism to date. Thanks for the retweet Liz (aka @liza_belle), and for the favourite Tom Dullemond (aka @Cacotopos)!

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