American Quote by Paul Harris

It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too…

— Camille Pissarro

So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the…

— Gunter Grass

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

— William P. Young

If this were fiction, could even the most brilliant novelist contrive to make credible so short a period in which pride had been subdued…

— Anonymous

Certainly, critics are not all created equal.

— Lionel Shriver

American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The majority, initiate…

— Burton Rascoe

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

— Alexander Pope

In truth, even if they have an imperfect insight into their own methods, I still slightly mistrust writers of fiction who are assured literary…

— Will Self

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of…

— Dennis Potter

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

— Raymond Chandler

The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of…

— Will Self

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to…

— W. Somerset Maugham