John Updike Quotes About Critics

Quotes about: Critics

• Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

  John Updike

  Writing, Sea, Sailing

  Hugging the Shore foreword (1984)

• Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.

  John Updike

  Past, Pigs, Critics

• I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.

  John Updike

  Book, Hands, Numbers

  John Updike, James Plath (1994). “Conversations with John Updike”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

• My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway.

  John Updike

  Mother, Critics, Raises

  Source: www.neh.gov

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