Quotes about Literary criticism

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In theory it was, around now, Literature. Susan hated Literature. She'd much prefer to read a good book. — Terry Pratchett, Soul Music
But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce m — G.K. Chesterton
I ran across an excerpt today (in English translation) of some dialogue/narration from the modern popular writer, Paulo — Roman Payne
There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimat — Christopher Hitchens
The mimicry of passion is the most intolerable of all poses. — Oscar Wilde, Reviews
Literature is news which stays news. — Ezra Pound
As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When y — David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. — Samuel Johnson
Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that i — Philip Pullman
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.", October 31, — John Osborne
You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something. — H.L. Mencken
Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them. — Flannery O'Connor
Yes, I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual smal — Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit
Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their — Susan Sontag, Styles of Radical Will
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it. — Moses Hadas
Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquis — Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb.American nov — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
CUSTOMER (to her friend): What's this literary criticism section? Is it for books that complain about other books? — Jen Campbell, Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature an — Christopher Hitchens, Prepared for the Worst: Selected Essays and Minority Reports