John Lahr Quotes About Critics

Quotes about: Critics

• I was the first critic ever to win a Tony - for co-authoring 'Elaine Stritch at Liberty.' Criticism is a life without risk; the critic is risking his opinion, the maker is risking his life. It's a humbling thought but important for the critic to keep it in mind - a thought he can only know if he's made something himself.

  John Lahr

  Winning, Risk, Mind

  "Questions for John Lahr". www.newyorker.com. January 23, 2009.

• Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she thinks in print, but she doesn't have a real feel for the stage.

  John Lahr

  Real, Thinking, Sight

  "Questions for John Lahr". www.newyorker.com. January 23, 2009.

• The New Yorker's' drama critics have always had a comparable authority because, for the most part, the magazine made it a practice to employ critics who moonlighted in the arts. They worked both sides of the street, so to speak.

  John Lahr

  Art, Drama, Practice

• A cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others.

  John Lahr

  Criticism, Way, Emptiness

  "Questions for John Lahr". www.newyorker.com. January 23, 2009.

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