Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a
quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and
exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash
but constantly inventing reactions towards books
about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
-- George Orwell
1903-1950, British
Author, ''Animal Farm''
The
greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art,
on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it
with sensory completeness. We need a science of
description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.
-- Camille Paglia
1947-, American
Author, Critic, Educator
This
is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should
be thrown with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker
1893-1967, American
Humorous Writer
Social
criticism begins with grammar and the
re-establishing of meanings.
-- Octavio Paz
1914-, Mexican Poet,
Essayist
