Mark Twain Didn't Exactly Love Jane Austen

"Every time I read 'Pride and Prejudice,' I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone."

Mark Twain on Jane Austen, from The 30 Harshest Author-on-Author Insults in History.

Speaking of prejudice, here's Gore Vidal on Truman Capote:

"He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices."