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Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,
they are better critics than authors. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing. — Salman Rushdie

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
[Time Magazine, October 31, 1977] — John Osborne

Literary critics make natural detectives. — A.S. Byatt

I really love having lots of down time with my kids. — Molly Shannon

Going from playing a backroom of a bar to a show for 80,000 people ... that's pretty wild. — The Rev

All of us knew that climbing was a sure way to stay poor, a lousy way to impress people and definitely no way to meet girls. — Peter Croft

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 critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires. — Edward Abbey

The environment must be rich in motives which lend interest to activity and invite the child to conduct his own experiences. — Maria Montessori

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

Remember that Puritans were utterly devoted, like literary critics, to the Word. — Thomas Pynchon

Vampires did not kill indiscriminately. They took blood when they needed it and left the human donor with no memory of the — J.S. Scott

The theory [of evolution] is a scientific mistake. — Louis Agassiz

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The Lord of the Rings is a million times more interesting than mere literature, which is why mere literary critics cannot get to grips with it. — Robert McNeil

One problem with the work of the New Critics was that their close readings, no matter how brilliant, could not deliver all they seemed to promise. — Jewel Spears Brooker

The press is easier to strangle than to look in the eyes. — Winston Churchill

Things just seem so much better in theory than in practice. — Chris Wooding

There's an old joke about Alzheimer's: the good news is that you meet new people every day. — Stephen King

If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good' critic. — Roman Payne

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms. — Irwin Shaw

The mind of a man is often thrown off its track by what women possess between their legs

The Halloween Orgy Massacre — Jeff O'Brian

He went to the hospital with bleeding kidney and me,I went dancing with my life — George Chuvalo

The United States is sending its most powerful drone to Libya. That's a long trip for Joe Biden. — Jay Leno

Those of my critics who declare I have no feeling for form will be filled with delight over the meandering formlessness of these notes. — Sherwood Anderson

It [Brexit] is not just gonna benefit me; it's gonna benefit other businesses here in the UK. It's gonna help tourism, it's gonna help exports. — Donald Trump

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew. — Theodor Adorno