Criticism Quote by Mason Cooley

I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity

— Alison Bechdel

There are some critics that will just write provocative stuff to get attention, but I would say most of the time that's not the…

— Sam Esmail

I don't even know what a serious literary critic is.

— John Grisham

“There is a literature that does not reach the voracious mass. It is the work of creators, issued from a real necessity in the…

— Tristan Tzara

One parody is worth a thousand polemics.

— Jennifer Stone

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

— John Fante

Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

— Mason Cooley

Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less with their…

— John Dryden

Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing.…

— Donna Tartt

“We have so long been subject to external criticism that we don’t know how to react to internal criticism, because whereas the most enduring,…

— Foz Meadows

“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

All literature is protest.

— Richard Wright