Books Quote by Susan Sontag

To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a…

— Fernando Pessoa

Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no…

— Anthony Burgess

“To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a…

— Fernando Pessoa

Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of…

— Kurt Vonnegut

My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction…

— Karen Traviss

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others

— Virginia Woolf

Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

“A final caution to students: in making judgments on literature, always be honest. Do not pretend to like what you really do not like.…

— Laurence Perrine

“Literature, I have always thought, is in most places and companies a singularly dull and uninteresting thing to talk about, but one may, as…

— William Hurrell Mallock

“literature is but the shadow of good talk”

— simon blackburn

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

— Salman Rushdie