David Denby

Quotes

• “The trouble with today's snarky pipsqueaks who break off a sentence or two, or who write a couple of mean paragraphs, is...”
• “Snark often functions as an enforcer of mediocrity and conformity. In its cozy knowingness, snark flatters you by assumi...”
• “Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms cri...”
• “If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in fiction and hi...”