Quotes by Wilder, Thornton

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: Behold! These things are. Yet >>

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so. >>

Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a sk >>

Quotations about Critics and Criticism

They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. >>

I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so. >>

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have wri >>

Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.

Wilder, Thornton