#critic

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

#denies #others #person #rights #suppressing

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#bewildering #critics #invent #knows #others

Jacques Derrida is a very important thinker and philosopher who has made serious contributions to both philosophy and literary criticism. Roland Barthes is the one I feel most affinity for, and Michel Foucault, well, his writing influenced my novel, 'Middlesex.' ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#both #contributions #criticism #feel #his

Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great. ↗

— Katherine Jenkins

#accessible #best #brought #care #classical

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it. ↗

— Howard Mumford Jones

#because #criticism #easier #first #first law

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world. ↗

— Ashley Judd

#amenable #basically #critically #fact #had

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. ↗

— Pauline Kael

#arts #critic #independent #information #only

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. ↗

— Pauline Kael

#critic #independent #information #only #rest

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. ↗

— John Fowles

#critical #duty #largely #pretending #trivial

If a writer has to find a rhythm if his novel is to come 'right', a rhythm which he may well discover in the rhythm of an individual sentence, then likewise a reader has to find a corresponding rhythm in his reading, which may equally well be discovered in responding to local effect. The intimacy of this relationship between writer and reader is well caught in a recent observation made by Graham Greene, 'Novels should always have, if not dull, then at least level patches. That's where the excessive use of film technique, cutting sharply from intensity to intensity is harmful. . . . The writer needs level passages for his subconscious to work up to the sharp scenes . . . and the reader needs those level patches too, so that he can share in the processes of creation—not by conscious analysis, but by absorption?' To reflect on the wide-ranging effects of rhythm in reading would seem to be one way of making a start on tracing that obscure route that leads from 'absorption' to 'conscious analysis'. ↗

— Ian Gregor

#equality