Literary Critic

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

“Literary criticism now is all pranks and polemics.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“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 great critic ... must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)