Learning Quote by Ambeth Ocampo

“Then I realized that I was falling victim to one of the fallacies of the bad reviewer (whose habits we already discussed at length…

— Kevin Guilfoile

“Even historians, who should know better, still seem addicted to the idea that nothing of any consequence occurred between the fall of the Roman…

— James Hannam

“In the nouveau roman of Robbe-Grillet there is an attempt at a more or less Copernican change in the relation between the paradigm and…

— Frank Kermode

“It would be futile to delude ourselves that at present, readers find every pathography unsavory. This attitude is excused with the reproach that from…

— Sigmund Freud

Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern…

— Lionel Trilling

“In my early youth - he would later write to his friend, the philosopher Constantin Noica- seduced me solely the libraries and the brothels.”

— Emil Cioran

“You invaded Narnia. You have no more right leading than Miraz does. Peter Pevensie: You, him, your father! Narnia's better off without the lot…

— C.S. Lewis

“Here the phenomenologist has nothing in common with the literary critic who, as has frequently been noted, judges a work that he could not…

— Gaston Bachelard

“I don’t think I’m an exceptionally bad reader. I suspect that many people, maybe even most, are like me. We read and read and…

— Joshua Foer

“What I have revealed is an orgy of depravity and venality, and if there is any attempt to stop the publishing of this book,…

— Jacques Pauw

“Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things Virgil, Georgics, Book 2”

— Robert Galbraith

“These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discoverer and collector of writers’ faults. Which…

— Jonathan Swift