Quote by Gerald Murnane

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

— Brian Lumley

A literary critic is a person who finds meaning in literature that the author didn't know was there.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

— Neel Mukherjee

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

“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

I don't even know what a serious literary critic is.

— John Grisham

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

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome,…

— Robertson Davies

A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.

— Paul Gauguin

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like

— Anonymous

“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