Famous quotes containing the words faulkner and/or criticism:
“She tried to sit on my lap while I was standing up.”
—William Faulkner (1897–1962)
“I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)