Critic Quote by Brian Lumley

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

— Neel Mukherjee

A literary critic is a person who finds meaning in literature that the author didn't know was there.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like

— Anonymous

A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this;…

— Robert A. Heinlein

I don't even know what a serious literary critic is.

— John Grisham

A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.

— Paul Gauguin

When somebody asks me what I do, I don't think I'd say critic. I say writer.

— Leslie Fiedler

Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much…

— Saint Basil

“The critic's aim should be to interpret the work they are writing about and help readers appreciate it, by defining and analysing those qualities…

— David Cecil

An art critic is someone who appreciates art, except for any particular piece of art.

— Robert Breault

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.

— D. H. Lawrence

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

— Leo Tolstoy