Literary criticism Quote by Graham Greene

“There is almost no human action or decision that cannot be made to look flawed and less sensible in the misleading light of hindsight.…

— Sidney Dekker

“I do prefer to criticise things from a position of ignorance.”

— Alan Moore

“He could not admit that he had known the truth then and was now mistaken, because as soon as he began to think calmly…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with…

— Raymond Chandler

“And he could not take the chance of putting his certain ignorance against this man's possible knowledge.”

— John Steinbeck

“A good critic knows that he or she can be wrong, as does a good writer.”

— Andy Merton

“When I hear a critic speaking of an author’s sincerity I know that either the critic or the author is a fool”

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Informed criticism is one thing, ignorant abuse quite another.”

— Peter Bray

“The images whittled away at him like a sharp knife, steady and unrelenting. There were times he thought it would have been far better…

— Haruki Murakami

“The truth is, he tired of criticism, tired of prose measured by the yard." --Disgrace”

— J.M. Coetzee

“You can easily see what and endless, wearisome and fruitless task it would be if I were to refute all the unconsidered objections of…

— St. Augustine

“I was never good at telling intelligent people from mere self-confident fools, the know-it-alls, because I didn’t and couldn’t know, growing up, that, of…

— Mikhail Iossel