Henry Sydnor Harrison Professions : Novelist Born : 1880 Died : 1930 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Henry Sydnor Harrison What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing since O. Henry,' but rather the one who will toss the manuscript down in disgust, with 'You know better than that! It's rotten! Do it all over again!' Henry Sydnor Harrison toss rotten writing Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors