"The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle ."

-- Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

#Critics Quotes

“There is no place so dangerous as a world without magic.”
“It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion”
“We weren't impatient. We just weren't moving.”
“Let a man begin in earnest with "I ought," and he will end, by God's grace, if he persevere, with "I will." Let him force himself to abound in all small offices of kindliness, attention, affectionateness, and all these for God's sake. By and by he will feel them become the habit of his soul.”
“The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undisguisable.”

Source : John Cheever, Blake Bailey (2009). “John Cheever: Collected Stories and Other Writings”
“If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.”
“Some of these guys... I've worked with Ice Cube, I think he's an immensely talented rapper and actor.”
“There are the saints who were raptured at the beginning of the tribulation period - those are the Christians.”

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