• Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
    Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton Lecture 1 (1811 - 1812)