Age Quote by Thomas de Quincey

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the…

— Edmund Burke

It's interesting to think that my children know more about the process than many mature critics.

— William Monahan

Critics reach that age when it is as valuable and daring to hold a negative opinion as it is for a positive. We learn…

— Nicolas Roeg

It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.

— Sylvia Plath

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not…

— Jonathan Swift

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.

— Gerald Brenan

Many, if not most, of the best and most lasting children’s books have multiple levels, some of which are not fully accessible to their…

— Patricia C. Wrede

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

If I had my way no one should be taught to read until after he had passed his hundredth year. In that way, and…

— John Kendrick Bangs

I know how to write stories that are accessible to younger readers, and sophisticated enough for older ones. I'm not a big fan of…

— Hope Larson

I don't read young adult or children's books, now that my grandchildren are beyond the age of my reading to them. I read reviews,…

— Lois Lowry

“Though I have lived most of my life with educationalists, I have little interest in educa¬ tion. I dislike schools, both for boys and…

— Jane Ellen Harrison