Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.", October 31, 1977]
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.
A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone some had already been used in building the house in which he actually lived, not far from the...
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...
No one tries to stone a tree whose fruit is not ripe.
I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.
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.
The victory is not to change the mind of the critic; it is to evaluate what you can learn and discard, yet still walk away with peace in your heart.
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.
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!
To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.
I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.
Critics! Appalled I ventured on the name.Those cutthroat bandits in the paths of fame.
If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good' critic.
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.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
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.
A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.
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