Books Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

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

— Neel Mukherjee

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

— Anonymous

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

— Wilson Mizner

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

— Paul Gauguin

A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this;…

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

— John Grisham

A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.

— Henry Edward Manning

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

— Tyne Daly

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

“Soon after I left university, I came up with another definition of a literary critic or would be critic: someoone who uses churlish towards…

— Gerald Murnane