Kermode Quotes

#1. He likes 'Confetti,' and he doesn't like 'Star Wars.' I think that just relieves us from the burden of ever having to take Mark Kermode seriously again.

Robert Webb

#2. I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read - but perhaps, above all literary critics, I'm indebted to Wayne Booth (several people have suggested to me that I'm trying to reinvent "ethical criticism").

Philip Kitcher

#3. It is ourselves we encounter whenever we invent fictions.

Frank Kermode

#4. Far from being a pack of baying butchers,critics sometimes have a perverse habit of tending to the sick and wounded on the cinematic field of battle, rushing in where angels fear to tread, even when the patient is clearly without a pulse.

Mark Kermode

#5. I am a recovering narcissist. I thought narcissism was about self-love till someone told me there is a flip side to it. It is actually drearier than self-love; it is unrequited self-love.

Emily Levine

#6. Some people say that I talk too fast, but I think it's just that they listen too slowly.

Mark Kermode

#7. Persistence is nothing more than staying in motion

Ken Evoy

#8. I suppose it would be better if one were aggressive, contentious and so on. But there's rarely any occasion to be savage.

Frank Kermode

#9. The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity ... is to an incalculable extent a history of error.

Frank Kermode

#10. Sometimes a stupid man is only a couple of good guesses away from looking clever.

Philip Kerr

#11. It is one of the great charms of books that they have to end.

Frank Kermode

#12. So does this mean we're officially young adults now?" I asked her.
"I don't know. I've already been reading those kinds of books for a few years."
"Uh-oh, does this mean I'm still a baby? I really love EVERYONE POOPS.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#13. Balance is the natural state of life, because the basic characteristic of the fundamental element of life, pure consciousness, is complete balance.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#14. we were alive, together, and conscious, aware of our own mortality, but thrilled by the fact of our own ridiculous existence.

Mark Kermode

#15. There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

Irwin Shaw

#16. It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.

Frank Kermode

#17. And although like most black males raised in Los Angeles, I'm bilingual only to the extent that I can sexually harass women of all ethnicities in their native languages, I understood the gist of the message.

Paul Beatty