Book Quote by Mignon McLaughlin

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

— Italo Calvino

If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.

— Jonah Goldberg

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

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.

— D. H. Lawrence

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

— Leo Tolstoy

A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.

— Henry Edward Manning

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like

— Anonymous

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

— Neel Mukherjee

There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.

— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want…

— William Faulkner

Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works…

— Karl Kraus

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

— W. H. Auden