Behinds Quote by Hugh Kingsmill

It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.

— Peter Schjeldahl

“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders…

— Anonymous

“Fantastic literature has been especially prominent in times of unrest, when the older values have been overthrown to make way for the new; it…

— Franz Rottensteiner

“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.…

— George Orwell

I respect Millar: he has raised the price of literature

— Samuel Johnson

There's a marvelous and unique man named Frank Gilroy. He's the only writer I know who absolutely, pointedly refuses to do any changes that…

— Rod Serling

“literature is but the shadow of good talk”

— simon blackburn

Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction…

— Saul David

I respect Millar, sir: he has raised the price of literature.

— Samuel Johnson

“I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that…

— Pat Conroy

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

— Benjamin Disraeli