James Wood Quotes

James Douglas Graham Wood is an English literary critic, essayist and novelist.

Wood was The Guardian's chief literary critic between 1992 and 1995. He was a senior editor at The New Republic between 1995 and 2007. As of 2014, he is Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. Wikipedia

✵ 1. November 1965 • Other names James Wood (critic)

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Famous James Wood Quotes

“An excess of storytelling has become the contemporary way of shrouding, in majesty, a lack; it is the Sun King principle. The lack is the human.”

James Wood

Hysterical realism
The Irresponsible Self (2004)

“The big contemporary novel is a perpetual motion machine that appears to have been embarrassed into velocity. It seems to want to abolish stillness, as if ashamed of silence. Stories and sub-stories sprout on every page, and these novels continually flourish their glamorous congestion.”

James Wood

Hysterical realism
The Irresponsible Self (2004)

“The hypocrite, among other things, can be a deformed ambassador of the truth.”

James Wood

The Irresponsible Self (2004)

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