John Steinbeck Quotes About Critics

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  • I've always tried out my material on my dogs first. Years ago, when my red setter chewed up the manuscript of 'Of Mice and Men,' I said at the time that the dog must have been an excellent literary critic.

  • Time is the only critic without ambition.

    "Writers at Work, Fourth Series (On Critics)". Book edited by George Plimpton, 1977.
  • Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.

  • Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

    "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fourth Series". Book edited by George Plimpton. Chapter "On Critics", 1977.
  • In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.

    John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.47, Penguin
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