I would not employ an author to referee a.... : Quote by Jack McClelland

“ I would not employ an author to referee a Ping-Pong match. By their very nature they are biased and bloody-minded. Better put a fox in a henhouse than to ask an author to judge his peers. (in a letter to the Governor General about the GA's Literary Awards & his issue--among others--with the judging system, 1981) ”

Jack McClelland
  • From : Imagining Canadian Literature: The Selected Letters
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