Books Quote by Lawrence Durrell Download Open image “A critic is a lug-worm in the liver of literature.” — Lawrence Durrell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Critic Critic Lug Criticism Critics Literature Liver Liver Literature Lug Worm Worm Liver Worms
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image
“The critic's aim should be to interpret the work they are writing about and help readers appreciate it, by defining and analysing those qualities… — David Cecil Copy Share Image
“[The critic] serves up his erudition in strong doses; he pours out all the knowledge he got up the day before in some library… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
A literary critic is a person who finds meaning in literature that the author didn't know was there. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“Suddenly at the end of the great couloir my vision is sharpened by a pale disjunctive shudder as a bar of buttercup-yellow thickening gradually… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
To be the equal of reality you must learn how to ignore it without danger. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The cocktail party - as the name itself indicates - was originally invented by dogs. They are simply bottom-sniffings raised to the rank of… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“He felt that his mind had become a battle-ground for the forces of good and evil and that his task was to strain every… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
We live" writes Pursewarden somewhere, "lives based upon selected fictions. Our view of reality is conditioned by our position in space and time -… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin. — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
“God did not create us, nor did He wish us to be created. We are the work of a lesser deity, a demiurge, who… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
![“[The critic] serves up his erudition in strong doses; he pours out all the knowledge he got up the day before in some library or other, and treats in heathenish fashion people at whose feet he ought to sit, and the most ignorant of whom could give points to much wiser men than he. Authors bear…” quote by Théophile Gautier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/817/theophile-gautier-7224_books_the-critic-serves-up-his-erudition-in-st_1298491.jpg)
