Criticism Quote by Robert Hass

My own sense is that fiction is inching its way over to join poetry on the cultural margin. It's an area of passionate concern…

— Matthew Specktor

As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because…

— William Trevor

I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.

— Francine Prose

With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work…

— Terry Eagleton

My literary criticism has become less specifically academic. I was really writing literary history in The New Poetic, but my general practice of writing…

— Christian Karlson Stead

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

I tend to like the way poets form communities. Writing can be lonely after all. Modern life can be lonely. Poets do seem to…

— Rae Armantrout

Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances…

— Paul Di Filippo

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

— Ellen Hopkins

Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of texts are…

— Nicholas Royle

I've been writing long enough to know that fiction, as a rhetorical mode, works very differently from expository writing. If an author has a…

— Ken Liu

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature…

— Harold Bloom