Bullshit Quote by John Fante

Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade.

— George Steiner

“Most modern literary criticism is literary and nothing else—that is, it concentrates on an author's style and thinks it rather vulgar to notice his…

— George Orwell

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

“Literary criticism is not your forte, my dear fellow. Don't try it. You should leave that to people who haven't been at a University.…

— Oscar Wilde

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

— Salman Rushdie

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

— Alexander Pope

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the…

— Northrop Frye

If people aren't creating literature, there would be nothing for people to criticize.

— Alistair MacLeod

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

— Kenneth McLeish

You have to accept the criticism but you also have to consider how much of what is said and written is actually true.

— Javier Zanetti

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than…

— Jean de la Bruyere