A Quote by Neel Mukherjee

I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.

Neel Mukherjee

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Neel Mukherjee
Indian - Writer
Born: 1970

There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.

Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

I don't think of myself as a critic at all. I'm a reviewer and essayist. I mainly hope to share with others my pleasure in the books and authors I write about, though sometimes I do need to cavil and point out shortcomings.

Michael Dirda

I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have never once in my life asked or thanked a reviewer for a review.

Vladimir Nabokov

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.

D. H. Lawrence

How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!

Kathryn Harrison

Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the society he lived in. (See, for example, _A Piece of My Mind_; _The Cold War and the Income Tax_; the introduction to _Patriotic Gore_.) Our conventional critics cannot forgive him for those scandalous lapses in good taste.

Edward Abbey

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

Clive James

The nightmare reviewer is the reviewer who has some sort of agenda that precludes him or her responding sincerely to the book. Often, that agenda is seeming clever and/or taking someone who has received more than her fair share of attention down a notch.

Curtis Sittenfeld

All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone thinks the Gospels are either legends or novels, then that person is simply showing his incompetence as a literary critic. I've read a great many novels and I know a fair amount about the legends that grew up among early people, and I know perfectly well the Gospels are not that kind of stuff.

C. S. Lewis

I call myself a literary agent simply to distinguish myself from actors' agents.

Irving Paul Lazar

Most of my professional work has been in these areas - as a historical critic, as a literary critic. I've done very little in the history of interpretation [as Elie Wiesel has]. I've been interested in it, but I have not contributed to that field, really.

Hershel Shanks

I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

James Dickey

The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.

J. R. R. Tolkien

You can't ever approach a book as a complete virgin, certainly not if you're a critic. There is a lot of bad faith out there. That's why I finally trained myself not to look at this stuff anymore, because it doesn't do me any good to see myself either praised or attacked.

Paul Auster

There's lots of room to be your own worse critic. It's just you, so I think that's inherit, that voice that's always that's there monitoring everything you do. It's definitely worse; the critic is harder when it's just you. If you're doing a show, then the critic can blame the other actors your with.

Jason Graae

I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

Dan Brown

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