Age Quote by Jonathan Swift

It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.

— Sylvia Plath

Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.

— Jonathan Swift

The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the…

— William Styron

“Each age selects its own geniuses from the past to suit its own needs. It's always been that way.”

— Seb Kirby

There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.

— J. B. Priestley

“The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have mighty dull literature if all the writers…

— William Styron

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with. . . . Time will reverse the judgement of the vulgar.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

And when you get an eminent journal like Time magazine complaining, as it often has, that to the young writers of today life seems…

— William Styron

There are no more geniuses, only critics.

— Arnold Schoenberg

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

— Alexander Pope

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Some have at first for wits, then poets passed, Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.

— Alexander Pope