Critics Quotes

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art

His words leap across rivers and mountains but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not oblige...

In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose...

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate.

To escape criticism - do nothing say nothing be nothing.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts...

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break ...

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything

A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old...

But you don't hold yourself superior to all the judges of music?" she protested."No, no, not for a m...

Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write can surely rev...

I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you ar...

Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

Of course, if I write a first-person novel about a woman writer, I am inviting every book reviewer t...

Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about ...

That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees ...

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, witho...

These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discover...

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.

Now that I think about it, it seems to me that’s what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all ...

Anyone who finds himself incapable of grasping the complexities of a work hides his withdrawal behin...

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world tho' the cant of hypocrites may be the wors...

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

If you are willing to take the punishment you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be...

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.

I am sitting in the smallest room in my house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be be...

The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than b...

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the wors...

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings...

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to ...

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

Always bring money along with your complaints.

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader a...

There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our sa...

The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows ...

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because the...

Critics! Appalled I ventured on the name.Those cutthroat bandits in the paths of fame.

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights actors and audiences - a figu...

It’s hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie.

The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.

The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.

The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.

The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.

The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.

The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.

The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.

The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shutt...

And, instead of pelting these babbling idiots with their own freshly toasted marshmallows, everyone ...

I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I w...

[The critic] serves up his erudition in strong doses; he pours out all the knowledge he got up the d...

I want to say to the literature teacher who remains wilfully, even boastfully ignorant of a major el...

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

Critics are biased and so are readers. (Indeed a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely togethe...

The critics greeted this book with a churlish and horrified outcry. Certain virtuous people, in news...

He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help.

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of cr...

The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

My objective is to create my own world and these images which we create mean nothing more than the i...

On writing, my advice is the same to all. If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and wri...

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done they've seen it done every day but th...

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about do...

The chronic kicker, even the most violent critic, will frequently soften and be subdued in the prese...