Famous quotes by Critics

"Faulkner turned out to be a great teacher. When a student asked a question ineptly, he answered the question with what the student had really wanted to know"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"When I was 12 years old, someone took me to see Martha Graham. It was nothing like what I thought of as serious dancing and even then I knew I was having a great experience. It was as if somebody was moving through space like no one ever did before"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"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"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"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"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"I have, I admit, a low tolerance for detached chronicling and cool analysis"

Leslie Fiedler, 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"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"It's funny to be a critic"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"There are things in American culture that want to wipe the class distinction. Blue jeans. Ready-made clothes. Coca-Cola.!"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"Faulkner sat in our living room and read from Light in August. That was incredible!"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine, and they would say, this doesn't suit our needs precisely, but on the other hand, you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not, because you know what he is saying"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth"

William Warburton, Critic

"The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization"

F. L. Lucas, Critic

"A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all"

F. L. Lucas, Critic

"Radical Islamic fundamentalists harbor contempt for our democratic way of life and, given the opportunity, will stop at nothing to accomplish their goal of bringing our country to its knees"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money, the world's problems will be solved"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"For one, the Qur'an is considered by Muslims to consist entirely of words spoken by Allah himself"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act"

James Agate, Critic

"I think in conventional magazine wisdom, you need to have a redesign every decade or so"

Timothy White, Critic

"I'll name names, you know I won't hold back"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

"I don't hold that everybody has to love fashion. Some people like gardening"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

"Politicians often lie"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"Many nations are like rebellious teenagers who try to figure out just how many times they can kick us in the teeth while still taking our money"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"Many Muslims honor people of other faiths and do not kill"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

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