2011 Quote by Walter Kirn

“With Derrida, you can hardly misread him, because he’s so obscure. Every time you say, "He says so and so," he always says, "You…

— John R. Searle

“The time for argument was over: Foucault wanted to crush an enemy, even though he claimed he loathed this kind of attack, in one…

— Benoît Peeters

The words in prose ought to express the intended meaning, and no more; if they attract attention to themselves, it is, in general, a…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Not all of Derrida's writing is to everyone's taste. He had an irritating habit of overusing the rhetorical question, which lends itself easily to…

— Terry Eagleton

“Burnside left even sooner, hard on the heels of a violent argument with Meade, an exchange of recriminations which a staff observer said “went…

— Shelby Foote

“Just because someone doesn’t have a grasp of English doesn’t mean they don’t have a grasp on disparagement.”

— Finn Murphy

“At the same time, Mrs de Bray Pape was saying things to the discredit of Marie Antoinette, whom apparently she disliked. He could not…

— Ford Madox Ford

“Is it rash to assume that when a practised writer says a thing, he is more likely to mean what he says than what…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not…

— Stendhal

“But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their compositions, faults…

— Matthew Lewis

“Every difficult work presents us with a choice of whether to judge the author inept for not being clear, or ourselves stupid for not…

— John Kennedy Toole

“Sometimes a writer is punished by misunderstanding from what he had written...”

— Navnath Godse