Admire Quote by Philip Kitcher

Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he…

— David Bowie

“Ever since the days when such formidable mediocrities as Galsworthy, Dreiser, Tagore, Maxim Gorky, Romain Rolland and Thomas Mann were being accepted as geniuses,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“Thomas Mann that “a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”

— Alexandra Johnson

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

— Jackie Collins

The biggest critics of my books are the people who never read them.

— Jackie Collins

Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.

— Joanna Scott

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“This philistinism of interpretation is more rife in literature than in any other art. For decades now, literary critics have understood it to be…

— Susan Sontag

Levi is one of the best authors I've ever read. It's hard not to have an immediate personal response to his work. He has…

— John Turturro

Mann was conscious of adopting different perspectives in different parts of the novella, but my guess is that there are plenty of passages in…

— Philip Kitcher

It's possible I am the only art critic that a lot of people read. And maybe Robert Hughes, if he's still writing.

— Peter Schjeldahl

I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read - but…

— Philip Kitcher