Academic Quote by Anne Stevenson

“Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow. Don't try it. You should leave that to people who haven't been at a University.…

— Oscar Wilde

the wrongs of society can be more deeply impressed on a large class of readers in the form of fiction than by essays, sermons,…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

— Philip Larkin

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

— David Hume

Reverence is fatal to literature.

— E. M. Forster

I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic…

— Richard Russo

Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay, you are not supposed to contradict yourself. But…

— Eugene Ionesco

Literature matters so much to me I can hardly stand it.

— David Shields

Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

— John Fante

I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.

— Dashiell Hammett

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide