--- title: "3 Dwight Garner Quotes" description: "Dwight Garner is an American journalist and longtime writer and editor for The New York Times. In 2008, he was named a book critic for the newspaper." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b046/author-dwight-garner-87845.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Dwight Garner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b046/author-dwight-garner-87845.jpg) # Dwight Garner **3** quotes in **65** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Dwight Garner is an American journalist and longtime writer and editor for The New York Times. In 2008, he was named a book critic for the newspaper. ## Quotes by Dwight Garner > [Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dwight-garner/excellent-sheep-is-likely-to-makea-lasting-mark-for-three-reasons-one/) Dwight Garner [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e75/dwight-garner-87845_aim_excellent-sheep-is-likely-to-makea-lasti_592971.png) > [Mo Yan is a writer who, defiantly in the face of those who wish his work were less cartoonish and more straightforward…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dwight-garner/mo-yan-is-a-writer-who-defiantly-in-the-face-of-those-who-wish-his/) Dwight Garner [Alluring](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/alluring/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5d/dwight-garner-87845_alluring_mo-yan-is-a-writer-who-defiantly-in-the_1403225.png) > [Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dwight-garner/mr-jones-s-book-is-a-cleareyed-examination-of-the-british-class/) Dwight Garner [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/851/dwight-garner-87845_acceptable_mr-jones-s-book-is-a-cleareyed-examinati_2833333.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dwight-garner/#itemlist", "name": "Dwight Garner Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Excellent Sheep is likely to makea lasting mark for three reasons. One, Mr. Deresiewicz spent twenty-four years in the Ivy League, graduating from Columbia and teaching for a decade at Yale.He brings the gory details. Two, the author is a striker, to put it in soccer terms. He's a vivid writer, a literary critic whose headers tend to land in the back corner of the net. 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His timely answers combine wit, left-wing politics and outrage.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Dwight Garner" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dwight-garner/mr-jones-s-book-is-a-cleareyed-examination-of-the-british-class/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/851/dwight-garner-87845_acceptable_mr-jones-s-book-is-a-cleareyed-examinati_2833333.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/851/dwight-garner-87845_acceptable_mr-jones-s-book-is-a-cleareyed-examinati_2833333.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/851/dwight-garner-87845_acceptable_mr-jones-s-book-is-a-cleareyed-examinati_2833333.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question…” — Dwight Garner", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } } ] }, { "@type": "Person", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dwight-garner/#person", "name": "Dwight Garner", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dwight-garner/", "image": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b046/author-dwight-garner-87845.jpg", "description": "Dwight Garner is an American journalist and longtime writer and editor for The New York Times. 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