Criticism Quote by George Steiner

Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

— John Fante

Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

— Rachel Cusk

You have to accept the criticism but you also have to consider how much of what is said and written is actually true.

— Javier Zanetti

“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

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

— Tibor Fischer

“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

It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing…

— Neil Cross

If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.

— Alistair MacLeod

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

— Salman Rushdie

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

“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

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

— D. H. Lawrence