There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work. (Dennis Potter)

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work.

Dennis Potter

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