“ Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. Henri Frederic Amiel
“ Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs. Christopher Hampton
“ 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… Kurt Vonnegut
“ It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work. George Bernard Shaw
“ There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one. Christian Nestell Bovee
“ Of course, if I write a first-person novel about a woman writer, I am inviting every book reviewer to apply the autobiographical label -- to conclude that I am writing about myself. But one must never… John Irving
“ We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking. Jonathan Swift
“ The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Oscar Wilde
“ Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world tho' the cant of hypocrites may be the worst the cant of criticism is the most tormenting. Laurence Sterne
“ Critical voices have to care about history. We have to care about the way in which things get controlled in the past because that's when the damage gets done and if we don't keep that historical memor… Martin Baker
“ It is not my methodology to engage too much with critics for many reasons:- I honestly believe that my ego is not worthy of my having to defend it. There are far more important things in the ummah tha… Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi
