Critics Quote by Michelle Dean

I am disappointed by this controversy surrounding A Million Little Pieces because I rely on the publishers to define the category that a book…

— Oprah Winfrey

Coming after all the bullshit related to A Million Little Pieces, nobody was expecting anything from me. No publisher, no agent, no one. Just…

— James Frey

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

— George Edward Moore

“The important thing is that another medium—stage, film, music—doesn’t obliterate a book. The movie is here now, on a big screen, with stars and…

— Lois Lowry

Every writer's got to pay some attention, I suppose, to what his critics say because theirs is a reflection of what the audience feels…

— Edward Albee

Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the…

— Eduardo Galeano

There's a fantastic, thousand-page book by David Thomson about [David O. Selznick]. Again, it's not the best argument or the best advertisement for his…

— Karina Longworth

After twenty years and thirty stories, thirteen pieces were finally selected and the collection was born. So far, the blurbs from [authors] Maxine Hong…

— Andrew Lam

every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works, yet we…

— Virginia Woolf

What the young writer is looking for is not a critic who will slap him on the back and say, 'Greatest thing since O.…

— Henry Sydnor Harrison

“One problem with the work of the New Critics was that their close readings, no matter how brilliant, could not deliver all they seemed…

— Jewel Spears Brooker

Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter, the only…

— Anonymous