You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Common sense is the most fairly distributed thing in the world, for each one thinks he is so well-endowed with it that even those who are hardest to satisfy in all other matters are not in the habit of desiring more of it than they already have.
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
There are several things that are wrong with Hostel. The first is that it exists at all.
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 20 those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.
Someone says: 'Whom do you write for?' I reply: 'Do you read me?' If they say 'yes', I say, 'Do you like it?' If they say 'No,' then I say, 'I don't write for you'.