Recognise the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review. Edward Dahlberg (1900-1977) Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs. Christopher Hampton (b. 1946) In reality, the world have payed too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are. Henry Fielding (1707-54) Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, They damn those authors whom they never read. Charles Churchill (1731-64) The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all. Raymond Chandler (1888-1959)

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