Literary Critic Quotes

11 quotes by 11 authors

• Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the… — Edward Abbey
• A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could! — Brian Lumley
• How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored. — Arna Bontemps
• All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks… — C.S. Lewis
• No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.… — Oscar Wilde
• The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the… — Clive James
• Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much time… — Saint Basil
• Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word. — Mason Cooley
• Horror fans are a particular breed. They analyze films with such detail and expertise that I am reminded of the Canadian literary critic Northrup Frye,… — Roger Ebert
• The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed. — J.R.R. Tolkien
• A literary critic is a person who finds meaning in literature that the author didn't know was there. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Who Wrote These Literary Critic Quotes

11 authors contributed a total of 11 Literary Critic Quotes as follows:

• 1 Literary Critic Quote by Edward Abbey
• 1 Literary Critic Quote by Brian Lumley
• 1 Literary Critic Quote by Arna Bontemps
• 1 Literary Critic Quote by C.S. Lewis
• 1 Literary Critic Quote by Oscar Wilde
• 1 Literary Critic Quote by Clive James
• 1 Literary Critic Quote by Saint Basil
• 1 Literary Critic Quote by Mason Cooley
• 1 Literary Critic Quote by Roger Ebert
• 1 Literary Critic Quote by J.R.R. Tolkien
• 1 Literary Critic Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow