--- title: "12 Critics Quotes By Edward Abbey" description: "12 Critics quotes by Edward Abbey. Plus more from Edward Abbey and more Critics sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aeb/edward-abbey-254_book_readers-not-critics-are-the-people-who-d_2541993.png" --- > [Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/readers-not-critics-are-the-people-who-determine-a-book-s-eventual/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aeb/edward-abbey-254_book_readers-not-critics-are-the-people-who-d_2541993.png) > [A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/a-critic-is-to-an-author-as-a-fungus-to-an-oak/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b79/edward-abbey-254_author_a-critic-is-to-an-author-as-a-fungus-to_967012.png) > [Death is every man's final critic. To die well you must live bravely.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/death-is-every-man-s-final-critic-to-die-well-you-must-live-bravely/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/406/edward-abbey-254_critics_death-is-every-man-s-final-critic-to-die_1518367.png) > [Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/critics-are-like-ticks-on-a-dog-or-tits-on-a-motor-ornamental-but/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e62/edward-abbey-254_critic_critics-are-like-ticks-on-a-dog-or-tits_458765.png) > [The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/the-critics-say-that-shostakovich-s-fourth-symphony-has-no-form-they/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/18f/edward-abbey-254_critics_the-critics-say-that-shostakovich-s-four_1681614.png) > [Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/any-hack-can-safely-rail-away-at-foreign-powers-beyond-the-sea-but-a/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b53/edward-abbey-254_critics_any-hack-can-safely-rail-away-at-foreign_3214263.png) > [Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/literary-critics-like-a-herd-of-cows-or-a-school-of-fish-always-face/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/62c/edward-abbey-254_cows_literary-critics-like-a-herd-of-cows-or_719996.png) > [Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/why-the-critics-like-a-flock-of-ducks-always-move-in-perfect-unison/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ed/edward-abbey-254_agreement_why-the-critics-like-a-flock-of-ducks-al_1129619.jpg) > [The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/the-sneakiest-form-of-literary-subtlety-in-a-corrupt-society-is-to/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b03/edward-abbey-254_beautiful_the-sneakiest-form-of-literary-subtlety_2929279.jpg) > [The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/the-moral-duty-of-the-free-writer-is-to-begin-his-work-at-home-to-be/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0f/edward-abbey-254_character_the-moral-duty-of-the-free-writer-is-to_1607860.png) > [Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/edmund-wilson-was-our-greatest-american-literary-critic-because-he/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85b/edward-abbey-254_cold_edmund-wilson-was-our-greatest-american_3187835.png) > [John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/john-updike-our-greatest-suburban-chic-boutique-man-of-letters-a-smug/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ce/edward-abbey-254_america_john-updike-our-greatest-suburban-chic-b_2593522.jpg) ## Other authors on Critics ## More by Edward Abbey > [A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/a-man-could-be-a-lover-and-defender-of-the-wilderness-without-ever-in/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote \_The Golden Ass\_.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/apuleius-married-a-rich-widow-then-wrote-the-golden-ass/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/except-for-the-scale-of-the-operation-there-was-nothing-unusual-about/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [By the age of eighteen, a human has acquired enough joy and heartache to provide the food of reflection for a century.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/by-the-age-of-eighteen-a-human-has-acquired-enough-joy-and-heartache/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/our-institutions-are-too-big-they-represent-not-the-best-but-the/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/no-man-made-structure-in-all-of-american-history-has-been-hated-so/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/where-all-pretend-to-be-thinking-alike-it-s-likely-that-no-one-is/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/nobody-has-so-many-friends-that-he-can-afford-to-lose-one/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [“But why, the questioner insists, why do people like you pretend to love uninhabited country so much? Why this cult of wilderness? Why the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/but-why-the-questioner-insists-why-do-people-like-you-pretend-to-love/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/civilization-is-a-youth-with-a-molotov-cocktail-in-his-hand-culture/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/all-revolutions-have-failed-perhaps-but-rebellion-for-good-cause-is/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [“Me, I'm living under a sword too, as Jack may have told you. An old wino's disease, which could lay me in the grave…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/me-i-m-living-under-a-sword-too-as-jack-may-have-told-you-an-old-wino/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [“Look here, I want to say, for godsake folks get out of them there machines, take off those fucking sunglasses and unpeel both eyeballs,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/look-here-i-want-to-say-for-godsake-folks-get-out-of-them-there/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/reason-has-seldom-failed-us-because-it-has-seldom-been-tried/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) > [“What is the essence of the art of writing? Part One: Have something to say. Part Two: Say it well.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/what-is-the-essence-of-the-art-of-writing-part-one-have-something-to/) [Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/critics/edward-abbey/#itemlist", "name": "12 Critics Quotes By Edward Abbey", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edward Abbey" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/readers-not-critics-are-the-people-who-determine-a-book-s-eventual/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aeb/edward-abbey-254_book_readers-not-critics-are-the-people-who-d_2541993.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aeb/edward-abbey-254_book_readers-not-critics-are-the-people-who-d_2541993.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aeb/edward-abbey-254_book_readers-not-critics-are-the-people-who-d_2541993.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.” — Edward Abbey", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edward Abbey" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/a-critic-is-to-an-author-as-a-fungus-to-an-oak/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b79/edward-abbey-254_author_a-critic-is-to-an-author-as-a-fungus-to_967012.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b79/edward-abbey-254_author_a-critic-is-to-an-author-as-a-fungus-to_967012.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b79/edward-abbey-254_author_a-critic-is-to-an-author-as-a-fungus-to_967012.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.” — Edward Abbey", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Death is every man's final critic. 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(See, for example, _A Piece of My Mind_; _The Cold War and the Income Tax_; the introduction to _Patriotic Gore_.) Our conventional critics cannot forgive him for those scandalous lapses in good taste.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edward Abbey" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/edmund-wilson-was-our-greatest-american-literary-critic-because-he/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85b/edward-abbey-254_cold_edmund-wilson-was-our-greatest-american_3187835.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85b/edward-abbey-254_cold_edmund-wilson-was-our-greatest-american_3187835.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/85b/edward-abbey-254_cold_edmund-wilson-was-our-greatest-american_3187835.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a…” — Edward Abbey", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 12, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. A smug and fatal complacency has stunted his growth beyond hope of surgical repair. Not enough passion in his collected works to generate steam in a beer can. Nevertheless, he is considered by some critics to be America's finest *living* author: Hold a chilled mirror to his lips and you will see, presently, a fine and dewy moisture condensing -- like a faery breath! -- upon the glass.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Edward Abbey" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/john-updike-our-greatest-suburban-chic-boutique-man-of-letters-a-smug/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ce/edward-abbey-254_america_john-updike-our-greatest-suburban-chic-b_2593522.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ce/edward-abbey-254_america_john-updike-our-greatest-suburban-chic-b_2593522.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ce/edward-abbey-254_america_john-updike-our-greatest-suburban-chic-b_2593522.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“John Updike: our greatest suburban chic-boutique man of letters. 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