Academic Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

“Academic criticism often focuses on pleasing the examiners for various purposes. It lacks the aesthetic design, the nobility of purpose and the freedom to…

— Alok Mishra

“Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas…

— Toni Morrison

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

— Anne Stevenson

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

“it has been my experience with literary critics and academics in this country that clarity looks a lot like laziness and ignorance and childishness…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Literary criticism is generally bunk. Nonsense. Usually based on self-serving post-intellectual bullshit.

— John Fante

The key thing for an intellectually rigorous writer to come to grips with is the marginalization of literature by more technologically sophisticated and thus…

— David Shields

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then…

— Thomas Love Peacock

“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

“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

What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“The effectiveness of an author turns chiefly upon his getting the reputation that he should be read. But by practicing various arts, by the…

— Arthur Schopenhaur