Life & Wisdom Quote by Nigel Kneale

A writer admitting he "doesn't judge" other people's work sounds, at first blush, like saintly humility. Coming from Nigel Kneale, it reads more like a tactical refusal: the practiced, slightly prickly move of someone who knows how quickly "opinions" harden into feuds, schools, and lazy category labels. The second clause does the real work. "I don't see enough of it either" isn’t a confession of ignorance; it’s a boundary. He’s signaling that his attention is finite, and he spends it on making, not ranking.

The subtext is anti-literary-scene: Kneale, whose best work (Quatermass, The Stone Tape) thrives on mood, dread, and the slow turn of plausibility into nightmare, is declining the role of cultural referee. In British media culture - tight, clubby, and often review-driven - to judge publicly is to enter a machinery of status and reciprocation. Kneale opts out. The line also implies a quiet critique of critical certainty: if you haven’t actually watched or read widely, verdicts are performance, not assessment. He’s puncturing the idea that taste is a civic duty.

There’s also an artist’s defensiveness hidden in plain sight. By insisting he doesn’t "see enough", he preempts comparison. No need to argue lineage, influence, or who's doing the genre "right". For a writer who treated the uncanny as a crack in everyday life, that’s consistent: keep the noise out, keep the signal clean, and let the work stand without the tribal scoreboard.