A Quote by Agnes Repplier
the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.
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A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally, I don't even consider whether the author is male or female, nor even care much who the author is - what's significant is the message. Of course, women are equally capable of great insights, however in our culture it's not so long ago that women could not even be published
The author always knows more than the reader does at the start of a novel, and gradually, they share that knowledge with the reader - that's storytelling.
The narrative image has more dimensions than the painted image - literature is more complex than painting. Initially, this complexity represents a disadvantage, because the reader has to concentrate much more than when they're looking at a canvas. It gives the author, on the other hand, the opportunity to feel like a creator: they can offer their readers a world in which there's room for everyone, as every reader has their own reading and vision.
Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.
Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text, but what matters is what a reader actually finds there which is usually something both more and less than the poet planned.
The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.
More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book alone, if they could help it, than have a baby alone.
If you're doing a good job as author, then you get the reader to engage in whatever speculation might be called for. And it's much more meaningful for the reader, if he or she comes up with the questions.
The bee is more honored than other animals, not because she labors, but because she labors for others.
Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic, but don't give it more attention than it deserves.
Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.
An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
I learned more in the rehearsals for 'The Letter' than I have ever dreamed of know in the theater as a critic. If it doesn't make me a better critic, I'm an idiot.
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