Cats, Coca-Cola, and Tom Cruise top the list.
J.K. Rowling hated being a teenager.
So it's interesting that her Harry Potter series fixated exactly on that time period. Perhaps writing the characters was a bit cathartic for Ms. Rowling?
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Vladimir Nabokov hated background music.
He also hated, "canned music, piped-in music, portable music, minstrel music, inflicted music…"
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Susan Sontag hated cats and Coca-Cola, among other things.
Brain Pickings posted a section from Sontag’s diaries, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, which included a list of her likes and dislikes. Among the dislikes are, "sleeping in an apartment alone, cold weather, couples, football games, swimming, anchovies, mustaches, cats, umbrellas, being photographed, the taste of licorice, washing my hair (or having it washed), wearing a wristwatch, giving a lecture, cigars, writing letters, taking showers, Robert Frost, German food."
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Stephen King hates organized religion.
"I hate organized religion," he told CNN. "I think it’s one of the roots of real evil that’s in the world. If you really unmask Satan, you’ll probably find that he’s wearing a turnaround collar.”
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