Antithesis Quote by Edwin Percy Whipple

We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of…

— C. S. Lewis

The whole relationship between a writer's spiritual/emotional condition and the kind of wordstuff and form-making that's going on in his work is an interesting…

— Seamus Heaney

An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we…

— C.S. Lewis

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

I'd like to think that what my style of writing is, is an attempt not so much to judge the characters that I'm writing…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings…

— Edmund White

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

— Louis Kronenberger

“Part of the writer's problem may be thee wrong kind of appreciation: hen he does work he knows to be less than he's capable…

— John Gardner

“In one sense, at any rate, it is more valuable to read bad literature than good literature. Good literature may tell us the mind…

— G.K. Chesterton

Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting;…

— Charles Caleb Colton