Accounts Quote by D. H. Lawrence

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

— DH Lawrence

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of…

— John Steinbeck

“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

“I often have the feeling that even at the best of times literary criticism is fraudulent, since in the absence of any accepted standards…

— George Orwell

“When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existence of literature…

— Todorov Tzvetan

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

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I sometimes think there is nothing really to be said about a novel but 'read the book.' I have a jaundiced view of literary…

— Mark Kurlansky

“To a degree, literary taste is a subjective matter. One can admire a work of fiction without particularly enjoying it; one can dislike a…

— Claire Messud

Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the…

— Northrop Frye

The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

— Angus Wilson