“In fact this desire for consonance in the apocalyptic data, and our tendency to be derisive about it, seem to me equally… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“We are all poor; but there is a difference between what Mrs. Spark intends by speaking of 'slender means', and what Stevens… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
“Whether he chooses a 'scholarly' or a 'popular' edition the modern reader is likely to have his judgement influenced in advance. Almost… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“...If you genuinely believe that only the death of a loved one can motivate a human being to take up a cause...then… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
A bad short story or novel or poem leaves one comparatively calm because it does not exist, unless it gets a fake… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The Romantic journey was usually a solitary one. Although the Romantic poets were closely connected with one another, and some collaborated in… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Old English poetry also contained a wide range of conventional poetic diction, many of the words being created to allow alliterative patterns… — Ronald Carter Copy Share Image
“Saying that studying the brain is limited to the study of physical entities would be like saying that literary criticism must focus… — Douglas R. Hofstadter Copy Share Image
“There are long stretches of the work [Paradise Lost] that are for anyone not theologically minded sheer howling boredom from the point… — Marco Mincoff Copy Share Image
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is… — DH Lawrence Copy Share Image
“Starting with the hypothesis that all the characters in Women in Love suffer from acute dissociation of sensibility, it becomes clear that… — John E. Stoll Copy Share Image
“Most intellectual training focuses on analytical skills. Whether in literary criticism or scientific investigation, the academic mind is best at taking things… — Richard J. Borden Copy Share Image
“When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existence… — Todorov Tzvetan Copy Share Image
“Attempts to connect men's circumstances too closely with their literary productions are usually, I believe, unsuccessful.” — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I have used the theologians and their treatment of apocalypse as a model of what we might expect to find not only… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“Offered a job as book critic for Time magazine as a young man, Bellow had been interviewed by Chambers and asked to… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
If we are ever to construct a feminist movement that is not based on the premise that men and women are always… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
“About some books we feel that our reluctance to return to them is the true measure of our admiration. It is hard… — Irving Howe Copy Share Image
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If a writer has to find a rhythm if his novel is to come 'right', a rhythm which he may well discover… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
“The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“Yes, I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling,… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
“Do not start me on The Da Vinci Code ... a novel so bad that it gives bad novels a bad name."… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
