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<blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quote/9252/">Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.</a></blockquote><br> <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/author/1174/">Burroughs, William S.</a> on <a href="http://quotationsbook.com/quotes/tag/criticism/">criticism</a><br> Quote from <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a>