Literary Critic

Famous quotes containing the words literary critic, literary and/or critic:

    “Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.”
    —John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908)

    “The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination.... To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.”
    —Henry James (1843–1916)

    “The Critic spits on what is done,—
    Gives it a wipe,—and all is gone.”
    —Thomas Hood (1799–1845)