#criticism

The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense. ↗

— Kenneth McLeish

#literary-criticism

If you tell me bad things about someone, you're telling bad things about me behind me ↗

— Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez

#literature #society #literary-criticism

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw—that of outright unreadability. ↗

— Martin Amis

#don-quixote #literary-criticism #miguel-de-cervantes #literary-criticism

The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#literary-theory #literary-criticism

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#new-york-city #literary-criticism

Literature is news which stays news. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#poetry #literary-criticism

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#criticism #critics #literature #writing #literary-criticism

The history of literature is very far from being one of simple progress. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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In reality the puritans and the humanists were quite often the same people. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#literary-criticism

I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism without ignoring the political dimension. Even if I have failed in this synthesis, I have found the attempt worth making. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#literature #politics #literary-criticism