Quote by Benoît Peeters

“Don’t be a critic. The critic is to art what the limp penis is to sex.”

— Steve Maraboli

“The critic is to art what the limp penis is to sex.”

— Steve Maraboli

“Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.”

— John Steinbeck

“He cut away the insignificant and incidental. Those bits were tossed away from the juicy core pieces. He slid the excess tissue and tendons…

— Jeffry R. Halverson

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as…

— Clive James

“And after his unparsable response, including a passage where he said he was 'blurring the boundaries between a thing and thought,' she said, 'Thank…

— Steve Martin

“the thirty-some years since then, his mind had eliminated that experience from his memory. He remembered it as if he’d read it in a…

— Isabel Allende

“... to his efforts to perpetuate man: but he has preserved nothing but sensations; and, although his invention was incomplete, he at least foreshadowed…

— Adolfo Bioy Casares

“If he lacks verbal expression of it, you may find his love profoundly in his works, deeds and creativity; so recognize rather than criticize.”

— T.F. Hodge

“He sits with the pen in his hand, holding himself back from a descent into representations that have no place in the world, on…

— J.M. Coetzee

“He does not identify the self with the physical body or attach much importance to the possessions of that body. He feeds it, dresses…

— Robert S. de Ropp

“he has no more idea of exerting himself to overcome obstacles than he has of restraining his natural appetites; and these two things are…

— Anne Brontë