All Lee Siegel Quotes
- I react very badly when mediocrity throws a tantrum of entitlement. Badly
- Every man is a hero to his alias. Alias
- Anonymity is a universal convention of the blogosphere, and the wicked expedience is that you can speak without consequences. Anonymity
- Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why the blogosphere is thriving. It… Allows
- I am too childlike to be immature. Childlike
- I have a confession to make. For years, I earned a living - or a sort of living - writing negative book reviews. Book
- The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval. Approval
- Instead of books, art, theatre, and music being consigned to specialized niches, we might have a criticism that better reflects the eclecticism of our time,… All
- A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with celebrity, to visions… All
- Television has to reflect back to you your own sense of security. It also has to mirror your sense of your own decency and your… Decency
- The terrorist threat is so cloudy, faceless, and vague, so manipulable by political purposes, so definitely present but indefinitely manifested, that it sometimes feels interchangeable… Cloudy