Critic Quotes

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.
I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.
I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.
I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.
I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper.
I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off.
If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.
It's funny to be a critic.
It's so wrong when I pick up a new edition of Huckleberry Finn and I look at the last page and it doesn't say, Yours truly, at the end.
Jane Austen is at the end of the line that begins with Samuel Richardson, which takes wonder and magic out of the novel, treats not the past but the present.
Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.
My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time.
Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.
One more recent novelist to come along is Cormac McCarthy. Him, I like.
Raymond Carver is good. I think he'll be appreciated more and more. He's an easy writer to imitate.
Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend.
The black situation has changed. They finally realized they're Americans.
The middlebrow, I hate.
The novel doesn't come into existence until certain methods of reproducing fiction come along.
The novel is always pop art, and the novel is always dying. That's the only way it stays alive. It does really die. I've been thinking about that a lot.
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