BRITISH NOVELISTS
THEY WRITE TOO FAST AMERICAN CRITIC (By Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent). ■LONDON, 10th April. British fiction has become devitalised because British novelists do not take enough time or trouble over their work. This opinion was expressed this week by Mr Ferris Greenslet, the eminent American publisher, who has visited Britain every year since 1906. “Your novelists are more competent and facile than ours” he said “but they don’t get down to the bottom of things.”
"A British fiction writer will turn out a novel in a few months, while an American retires into the wilderness for two years with an idea and goes to the mat with it.” British critics are partly to' blame, according to Mr Greenslet. They praise too easily.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 3 May 1937, Page 8
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