John Steinbeck Quotes About Criticism

Quotes about: Criticism

• Only mediocrity escapes criticism.

  John Steinbeck

  Life, Criticism, Mediocrity

  John Steinbeck (2001). “A Life in Letters”, p.1159, Penguin UK

• Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn't mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Mean, Cutting

  "John Steinbeck, The Art of Fiction No. 45". Interview with Nathaniel Benchley, www.theparisreview.org. Fall 1969.

• The curious hocus-pocus of criticism I can't take seriously. It consists in squirreling up some odd phrases and then waiting for a book to come running by.

  John Steinbeck

  Running, Book, Writing

  John Steinbeck (1995). “The Long Valley”, p.7, Penguin

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

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Play, Giving

  "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fourth Series". Book edited by George Plimpton. Chapter "On Critics", 1977.

• Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught.

  John Steinbeck

  Inspirational, Men, Criticism

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.175, Penguin

• 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

  Choices, Criticism, Attention

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

• Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

  John Steinbeck

  Criticism, Morality, Seems

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.175, Penguin

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