Able Quote by Jean Kerr

His struggle for a bare living left him no time to take advantage of the public evening school. In time he learned to read,…

— Mary Antin

Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic, though he cannot tell us where he went to school, or how much…

— Saint Basil

“I was delighted to see him growing more cautious and skeptical about what he heard, especially when he heard it from someone in apparent…

— Martine Millman

A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ [When asked if he had ever learned anything about his work from film criticism] No. To see a film once and write a…

— Stanley Kubrick

Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He…

— E. M. Forster

An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries do the…

— Storm Jameson

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

— Ian Mcewan

“I suspect that every teacher hears the same complaints, but that, being seldom a practicing author, he tends to dismiss them as out of…

— Dorothea Brande

In the thirties a whole school of criticism bogged down intellectually in those agitprop, social-realistic days. A play had to be progressive. A number…

— Edward Albee

If you think about it, critics are an unnecessary life-form on the planet Earth, and here's why: because it's a job without credentials. You…

— Gene Simmons

Whenever he composes a critical review, I have been told, he gets an enormous erection.

— Anonymous