Storm Jameson Quotes About Critics

• An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries do the work cheaply. Moreover, continuity may be got at the expense of intellectual arthritis; a reviewer who has been at his grisly task for half a lifetime may stiffen into prejudices of every sort, and become too anchylosed to do better than turn his back to a new wave when it rushes down on him.

  Tormenta Jameson

  Intelligent, Men, Careers

• The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.

  Tormenta Jameson

  Law, Literature, Giver

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.78, A&C Black

• Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.

  Tormenta Jameson

  Heart, Long, Fiction

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.2, A&C Black

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