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)

    “First literature came to refer only to itself, the literary theory.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

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