National Book Critics

Famous quotes containing the words national, book and/or critics:

“This is the first national administration we’ve ever seen where the housewife couldn’t afford to buy groceries and the farmer couldn’t afford to grow them.”
—Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.)

“Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)

“There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)