To avoid enemies, say nothing; to avoid critics, do nothing; to avoid haters, be nothing; but to avoid mediocrity, ignore them all.
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.
These reasonings will furnish us with an adequate definition of a true critic: that he is a discoverer and collector of writers’ faults. Which may be farther put beyond dispute by the following demons...
If you have to explain your sense of humor, then you are performing for the wrong crowd.
To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.", October 31, 1977]
I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.
No one tries to stone a tree whose fruit is not ripe.
I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.
You will love and admire the One who is honest and blunt in his views, as long as you're not his subject of viewpoint!
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.()
If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good' critic.
Critics! Appalled I ventured on the name.Those cutthroat bandits in the paths of fame.
The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism founded upon appreciation of beauty and of intellectual distinction and of duty.
There is nothing worse then being surrounded by a bunch of people telling you to do what is right, when they can't define that definition, without a lot of hatred and judgment behind it.
A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.
Smile at your critics for they have yet to see the universe that exists outside the box
If you throw ice at the sun, it will melt; if you throw spears, they will burn; and if you throw bricks, they will crumble. The sun is invincible; all that comes before it is consumed.
There is a difference between judgment and feedback. Your critics use you as a mirror for their own hidden darkness. Your teachers hold up a mirror to yours.