Critic Quotes

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few.
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge'they will be both moral and national if you follow your inspiration freely.
I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.
All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
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