"Interesting" post

From the Denver Post Book Beat, via Kitabkhana and Maud Newton

The following glossary, offered with tongue in cheek, might help literary hopefuls decipher messages received from agents in response to their work:
Interesting - Boring
Has potential - Amateurish
Moving - Show it to Moma
Needs work - Hopeless
Mid-list - Won't sell
Intelligent - See 'interesting'
Ambitious - Too long
Spare - Too short
Poetic - Insomniacs only
Plot-driven - Superficial
Excellent - Possible, with a rewrite
Cinematic - Unreadable
Marketable - People will buy anything
Challenging - See 'poetic'
At this time (as in, we can't use it at this time) - Never
Experimental - In your dreams
Character-driven - No story
Novel of ideas - No one will read it
Talented - How did you get in here?