Gore Vidal Quotes About Critics

Quotes about: Critics

• Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

  Gore Vidal

  Criticism, Description, Critics

  Gore Vidal (2002). “The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000”, p.25, Vintage

• The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.

  Gore Vidal

  Tourists, Done, Return

  "The End of Gore Vidal". Interview with Lila Azam Zanganeh, www.guernicamag.com. August 15, 2012.

• If you're a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press, and they do a very good job of making you into a non-person or a ridiculous person.

  Gore Vidal

  Jobs, United States, Ridiculous

  "Fresh Air Remembers Writer And Critic Gore Vidal". www.npr.org. August 2, 2012.

• The Americans only like things they can label, even if it kills them. Think of those poor Latin American writers. Some of them are very good. But the "magical realism" label has absolutely ruined them. The critics are like tourists who return from a trip saying they've "done" Machu Picchu: "Okay, we've done magical realism," so now we can throw it out.

  Gore Vidal

  Latin, Thinking, Done

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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