Books Quote by George Orwell

“Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas…

— Toni Morrison

“Criticism is not a circumscription or a set of prohibitions. It provides fixed points of departure. It may startle a dull reader into alertness.”

— Ezra Pound

“[T]his is how it will remain until ... literary criticism discards its sociological, religious, philosophical and other textbooks, which only help mediocrity to admire…

— Vladimir Nabokov

In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To…

— Joanne Harris

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

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow. Don't try it. You should leave that to people who haven't been at a University.…

— Oscar Wilde

“A literature that cannot be vulgarized is no literature at all and will perish.”

— Frank Norris

“As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play…

— kurt Vonnegut

“it is the very nature of the humanities, and in particular the study of literature, to help remind thoughtful people of the ambiguities and…

— Gregory Wolfe

“Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as…

— William Hurrell Mallock

“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