But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it.
G.K. ChestertonTags: humor books literary-criticism
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.
Moses HadasTags: books literary-criticism time bad-reviews classic-insult irony
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
Samuel JohnsonTags: writing literary-criticism apathy obscurity
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.
Jack KerouacTags: art literary-criticism creativity self-expression
As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: writing literary-criticism bad-reviews critics reviewers
Mankind is immortal
in the comic perspective not by virtue of man's subjugation of nature
but by virtue of man's subjection to it. The "fall" in tragedy ends in
death; the fall in comedy ends in bed, where, by natures's arithmetic,
one and one make a brand new one.
Tags: literary-criticism comedy
There are long stretches of the work [Paradise Lost] that are for anyone not theologically minded sheer howling boredom from the point of view of the content.
Marco MincoffTags: literary-criticism
He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.
(writing about US President Warren G. Harding)
Tags: literary-criticism bad-reviews political-commentary
You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.
H.L. MenckenTags: writing literary-criticism
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]
Tags: humor writing literary-criticism critics
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