Critics Quote by David Edelstein
“A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).”
“A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).”
![“Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics - feel that [Kurt] Vonnegut started to repeat himself, to grow increasingly self-indulgent and meandering, and to sometimes just blather in his later work. But his books up…” quote by Michael Dirda](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ed7/michael-dirda-3414_1960s_nearly-all-the-writing-of-our-time-is-li_13506.jpg)