Literary Critic

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“Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“England has the most sordid literary scene I’ve ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy’s writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They’re all scratching each other’s backs.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)

“A literary woman’s best critic is her husband ...”
—Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)