Critics Quote by Edward Albee

The best critics of America are Americans.

— William Klein

I can't name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I'm told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don't…

— Gore Vidal

I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.

— Jerry Lewis

The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of…

— Will Self

Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to…

— Derek Bok

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

— Robert M. Hutchins

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

— Sinclair Lewis

I loved American universities. In many ways, they are better organized - certainly than French universities.

— Thomas Piketty

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.

— Herman Melville

[On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland.

— Camille Paglia

If there is anything education does not lack today it is critics.

— Nathan M. Pusey

American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.

— Gore Vidal