Critic Quote by John Grisham

A literary critic is a person who finds meaning in literature that the author didn't know was there.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

— Mason Cooley

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

“You're smiling. But you must know yourself, since you are a literary person, that the work of fiction is always a form of recovery…

— Raymond Federman

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

— Neel Mukherjee

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to…

— Oscar Wilde

“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

“A literary critic should have no emotions except those immediately provoked by a work of art.”

— T S Eliot

Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.

— Allegra Goodman

I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that…

— Claire Tomalin

“As the literary critic and writer Leon Wieseltier remarks, “every technology is used before it is completely understood.”

— Michael P. Lynch