Angel Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

— Mark Twain

I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

— Alexander Pope

Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the…

— Northrop Frye

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

— Andre Gide

“I got no idea wht a writer of a book should have respect. Or even get the time of day, unless he's a prophet.…

— Barry Hannah

Novels should be judged rigorously. Either a book works or it doesn't. The fact that something is true in the real world should not…

— Akhil Sharma

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

— Nelson Algren

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

— Alexander Pope

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

— Edward Abbey