Famous quotes by Critics

"I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"You can't take up golf on a whim and find yourself competing against Tiger Woods in the Masters six months later"

Richard Roeper, Critic

"When I put my nose in a glass, it's like tunnel vision. I move into another world, where everything around me is just gone, and every bit of mental energy is focused on that wine"

Robert M. Parker, Jr., Critic

"We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in"

Pamela Hansford Johnson, Critic

"Or like in the early 70s when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist Manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"Basically no, I mean, I think that it's very easy to like I say, smoke a joint or even to wear a Chairman Mao button, or do a lot of these things with out knowing what's behind it, and what it really means"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society, people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather"

Lionel Trilling, Critic

"You'd never know that listening to people in the UN, but tribalism is the father of racism"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

"When we root-root-root for the home team, we're rooting for our home as much as the team"

Richard Roeper, Critic

"On first blush, Hold 'em seems like a ridiculously simple game"

Richard Roeper, Critic

"I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12"

Richard Roeper, Critic

"Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent"

George Steiner, Critic

"No, I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"In fact, I think now we've reached a point now where the powers that be really have sort of vested interest in all of us being stoned out as much as possible all the time, so we don't know what's going on, and we don't care"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip, that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"I hate Stanley Clark, but I have to admit he's playing jazz whether I like it or not"

Lester Bangs, Critic

"The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact: every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform"

George Steiner, Critic

"The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself"

Chuck Klosterman, Critic

"I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story"

Chuck Klosterman, Critic

"Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me"

Chuck Klosterman, Critic

"The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity"

Carl Clinton Van Doren, Critic

"It's just that what's important there is different there than what's important is here. Here, people care that you wrote a book or that you work in the media"

Chuck Klosterman, Critic

"If you're doing an interview, you need conversational tension. After you talk to them, you're not going to have a relationship with them, they're not going to like you, they're not going to be your friend"

Chuck Klosterman, Critic

"It is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction"

Carl Clinton Van Doren, Critic

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