Quote

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

Mignon McLaughlin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mignon McLaughlin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 6
Died: 1983
Died: December 20
Journalist
Writer
the United States of America
Book
Writing
Review
Critic
Reviews
Critics
Wrote
Writer
Read

More quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Image
A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The first two days of a vacation are endless then it flies.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Neurotics have plenty of non-neurotic friends, but not for long.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Neurotics make poor patriots if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
When hope is hungry, everything feeds it
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Courage doesn't know what's around the corner, but goes around it anyway.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Hot dogs always seem better out than at home so do French-fried potatoes so do your children.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Mignon McLaughlin