Thursday, November 21, 2024 Text is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 licence.

Northrop Frye

« All quotes from this author
 

A literary critic of experience never defines anything.

 
Northrop Frye

» Northrop Frye - all quotes »



Tags: Northrop Frye Quotes, Experience Quotes, Authors starting by F


Similar quotes

 

The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

 
Clive James
 

Irish stylist springs Booker surprise [...] A 7-1 outsider in the betting odds and untipped by virtually any critic [...] The veteran Irish stylist John Banville brought off one of the biggest literary coups last night when he took the ?50,000 Booker Prize from under the noses of the bookies and the literary insiders.

 
John Banville
 

Known as supreme in the Philippine literary world, the keenest critic and writer we ever had.- Dr, Trinidad Pardo de Tavera

 
Epifanio de los Santos
 

I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.

 
Anais Nin
 

Bujak spoke of Einstein as if he were God's literary critic, God being a poet. I, more stolidly, tend to suspect that God is a novelist — a garrulous and deeply unwholesome one too.

 
Martin Amis
© 2009–2013Quotes Privacy Policy | Contact