Captions : Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. William Shakespeare

Captions : In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned – or the very brilliant – dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person’s work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule. Joanne Harris