[Waiting for Godot] has achieved a theoretical impossibility—a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps audiences glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.
Vivian MercierTags: absurd critic godot irish theater
The House Beautiful is, for me, the play lousy.
Dorothy ParkerTags: critic the-new-yorker review
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
G.K. ChestertonTags: art creativity critic criticism mystery crime detectives
These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
Henry AdamsThe critic leaves at curtain fall
To find, in starting to review it,
He scarcely saw the play at all
For starting to review it.
Reading the book now means that one can, if one wants, play Fantasy Literature--match writers off against each other and see who won over the long haul. Faulkner or Henry Green? I reckon the surprise champ was P.G. Wodehouse, as elegant and resourceful a prose stylist as anyone held up for our inspection here...he has turned out to be as enduring as anyone apart from Orwell. Jokes, you see. People do like jokes.
(Hornby's thoughts after reading "Enemies of Promise" by Cyril Connolly)
Tags: humor writing critic p-g-wodehouse
As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage.
Dean KoontzTags: critic book bondage book-critic wicked-looking
Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a few lectures fees and a little careerism at a dispiritingly self-limiting level, anyone does it in the first place.
Joan DidionTags: critic criticism film movie reviewers
I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
Karl LagerfeldTags: life time critic fashion open
Every great film should seem new every time you see it."
Roger Ebert
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