Quotes by Literary Critic of the Authors - Page 1

• Harold Bloom / Literary Critic

More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.

• Henry Louis Gates / Literary Critic

I'm a tech geek.

• Harold Bloom / Literary Critic

Shakespeare is universal.

• Leslie Fiedler / Literary Critic

It's funny to be a critic.

• Georg Brandes / Literary Critic

Being gifted needs courage.

• Henry Louis Gates / Literary Critic

Instill respect for teachers.

• Henry Louis Gates / Literary Critic

I have no plans to slow down.

• Georg Brandes / Literary Critic

School is a foretaste of life.

• Harold Bloom / Literary Critic

Literature is achieved anxiety.

• Henry Louis Gates / Literary Critic

I think literacy is everything.

• Stephen Greenblatt / Literary Critic

Poems are difficult to silence.

• Henry Louis Gates / Literary Critic

It's fascinating how life works.

• Liu Xiaobo / Literary Critic

I have no enemies and no hatred.

• Liu Xiaobo / Literary Critic

Life is priceless even to an ant.

• Harold Bloom / Literary Critic

Real reading is a lonely activity.

• Walter Benjamin / Literary Critic

The work of memory collapses time.

• George Steiner / Literary Critic

The age of the book is almost gone.

• Harold Bloom / Literary Critic

There is no method except yourself.

• Irving Howe / Literary Critic

Good readers make much out of little.

• William Empson / Literary Critic

The heart of standing is you cannot fly.

• Christa Wolf / Literary Critic

The past is not dead - it isn't even past

• Henry Louis Gates / Literary Critic

The genius is making a way out of no way.

• Lionel Trilling / Literary Critic

Immature ists imitate. Mature ists steal.

• Henry Louis Gates / Literary Critic

One must learn how to be black in America.

• Leslie Fiedler / Literary Critic

I used to be fond of Indian arm wrestling.

• Terry Eagleton / Literary Critic

Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage.

• Georg Brandes / Literary Critic

It is useless to send armies against ideas.

• George Edward Woodberry / Literary Critic

The sweetest roamer is a boy's young heart.

• Henry Louis Gates / Literary Critic

Suffering does not necessarily ennoble you.

• Liu Xiaobo / Literary Critic

Now the entire world has its eyes on China.

• Harold Bloom / Literary Critic

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.

• Henry Louis Gates / Literary Critic

Diversity doesn't mean black and white only.

• John Churton Collins / Literary Critic

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

• Liu Xiaobo / Literary Critic

My praise is perhaps an unforgivable poison.

• Terry Eagleton / Literary Critic

Nothing in human life is inherently private.

• Vissarion Belinsky / Literary Critic

Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas.

• Walter Benjamin / Literary Critic

The distracted person, too, can form habits.

• William Empson / Literary Critic

The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.

• William Empson / Literary Critic

My heart pumps yet the poison draught of you.

• Henry Louis Gates / Literary Critic

I didn't feel particularly close to my father.

• Stephen Greenblatt / Literary Critic

But I never listen to music while I'm writing.

• Walter Benjamin / Literary Critic

All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

• Walter Benjamin / Literary Critic

All disgust is originally disgust at touching.

• Henry Louis Gates / Literary Critic

Censorship is to art as lynching is to justice.

• Henry Louis Gates / Literary Critic

Remember, I have a Ph.D. in English literature.

• John Churton Collins / Literary Critic

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

• Lionel Trilling / Literary Critic

Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.

• William Empson / Literary Critic

Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.

• Georg Brandes / Literary Critic

What is public opinion? It is private indolence.

• John Churton Collins / Literary Critic

No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.