Thanks for the link. Really fun to read.

It addresses one of my peeves with this: "In my literary criticism, I have become known as a champion of the eternal verities and a scold of the trendy and the fashionable."

There is always the trendy and fashionable in writing, the really cool, the hip, then there is good writing. The other implicit message is if one wants to write well, there is no substitute for reading great books; they tend to spoil one and make one dissatisfied, in a good way.