To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.
There is, perhaps, no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist but without creative talent. With luck such men make wonderful theatrical impresarios and interio...
Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.
Critasism is just a way of saying i'm jelous of your talents
At that shameful stage in the development of our criticism, literary abuse would overstep all limits of decorum; literature itself was a totally extraneous matter in critical articles: they were pure...
They fired arrows at me, but I did not fire back. I picked them up instead to build my castle.
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done they've seen it done every day but they're unable to do it themselves.
The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment.()
Only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro.
Of course, if I write a first-person novel about a woman writer, I am inviting every book reviewer to apply the autobiographical label -- to conclude that I am writing about myself. But one must never...
I'm not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15.
The larger the bricks your enemies throw at you the larger the palace you are going to build.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.", October 31, 1977]
To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
Loud critics are silenced by loud success.
When they try to judge you,remember, they themselves are judged.When they try to condemn you,remember, they themselves are condemned.When they try to break you,remember, they themselves are broken.Whe...
If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good' critic.
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