Critic quotes
| Author | # of quotes |
| Ada Louise Huxtable | 11 |
| Aleister Crowley | 10 |
| Alexander Woollcott | 6 |
| Alfred Kazin | 3 |
| Amy Leslie | 1 |
| Andrea Dworkin | 16 |
| Brendan Gill | 6 |
| Brooks Atkinson | 11 |
| Charles Lamb | 39 |
| Edmund Wilson | 6 |
| Eric Bentley | 2 |
| George Steiner | 12 |
| Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | 3 |
| Harold Rosenberg | 7 |
| James Agate | 1 |
| John Canaday | 1 |
| John Lahr | 3 |
| John Mason Brown | 19 |
| John Simon | 6 |
| Judith Crist | 1 |
| Kenneth Tynan | 14 |
| Lester Bangs | 3 |
| Lionel Trilling | 14 |
| Louis Kronenberger | 14 |
| Lytton Strachey | 1 |
| Malcolm Cowley | 2 |
| Margaret Fuller | 9 |
| Northrop Frye | 9 |
| Pamela Hansford Johnson | 4 |
| Pauline Kael | 10 |
| Rex Reed | 2 |
| Robert Hughes | 20 |
| Roland Barthes | 15 |
| Russell Lynes | 18 |
| Stephen Bayley | 5 |
| Terry Eagleton | 3 |
| Thomas Gold Appleton | 2 |
| Tom Shales | 1 |
| Tony Parsons | 1 |
| Van Wyck Brooks | 3 |
| Walter Benjamin | 18 |
| Walter Kerr | 9 |
| Walter Pater | 1 |
| William Gifford | 1 |
| William Hazlitt | 107 |