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“I think it's a very old and deep-seated double standard that holds that when a man writes about family and feelings, it's literature with a capital L, but when a woman considers the same topics, it's romance, or a beach book - in short, it's something unworthy of a serious critic's attention.”

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Author:Jennifer Weiner

“While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree that the critic is an unnecessary evil.”

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Author:Jean Kerr

“She had me at Sweet Valley High. Gay playfully crosses the borders between pop culture consumer and critic, between serious academic and lighthearted sister-girl, between despair and optimism, between good and bad. . . . How can you help but love her?”

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Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“It would have more meaning for me to hear what critics have to say if their values and their ways of living were deeper and more serious.”

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Author:Rei Kawakubo

“The one thing I do find about serious reviews is that usually they tend to have a point, and that's what I find hurt so much about discerning critics. If the reviews hurt they're probably right on some level.”

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Author:Sean Lennon

“It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia and so without a career as a critic or essayist you can be treated as something of a spiritual medium - a fraud - for "just" writing fiction.”

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Author:Alexander Chee

“If you examine the history of any playwright of the past twenty - five or thirty years - I'm not talking about the comedy boys, I'm talking about the more serious writers - it seems inevitable that almost every one has been encouraged until the critics feel that they have built them up beyond the point where they can control them; then it's time to knock them down again.”

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Book:Conversations with Edward Albee

Source: Conversations with Edward Albee

“I don't consider myself a serious and social political critic.”

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Author:Jon Stewart

“Critics, often for good reason, are concerned that the Fed is wielding its vast powers in the interests of the banks and not in the interests of the people. After the financial crisis, Americans have perceived that the banks have been bailed out, but a significant proportion of the population is still in serious economic trouble.”

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Author:Gerald Epstein

“In my case, once you sell a lot of books and you are labeled a bestselling author, the serious critics are never gonna say anything nice about you.”

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Author:John Grisham

“I don't even know what a serious literary critic is.”

Serious Critics

Author:John Grisham