"Unless you are a restaurant critic... nobody cares what you had for lunch."
- Susanne Whited
"Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they bring realities to mind."
- Samuel Johnson
"The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with..."
"Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by incrustations, debased by impurities, and mingled with a mass of meaner minerales."
"Psychoanalysis has suffered the accusation of being “unscientific” from its very beginnings (Schwartz, 1999). In recent years, the Berkeley literary critic Frederick Crews has renewed the assault on t..."
- Joseph Schwartz
"The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it."
- E.B. White