Literary criticism Quote by Jewel Spears Brooker

“Critics were rigid and hidebound, never willing to give due credit for anything that didn’t fit in with their predetermined parameters of what fiction…

— Therese Anne Fowler

“The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to…

— C.S. Lewis

“Critics are eager to discover a new voice. For some reason they're just as eager to be disappointed by a second novel.”

— Olivia Goldsmith

“all that really matters to me is that there are critics.”

— Peter Davis

“Don't listen to critics. Their job is to critique. You're a writer. Your job is to write.”

— Ksenia Anske

“Recognizing masterpieces is the job of the critic, not writing competent reviews of the unimportant.”

— Jack Green

“For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may…

— Roberto Bolano

“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.”

— Kenneth McLeish

“Critics write words but they don't write the future.”

— Jon Gordon

“She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say was good.”

— Anthony Trollope

“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

“The critics only made me work harder.”

— Muhammad Ali