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.
Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
It is not my methodology to engage too much with critics for many reasons:- I honestly believe that my ego is not worthy of my having to defend it. There are far more important things in the ummah tha...
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
Critical voices have to care about history. We have to care about the way in which things get controlled in the past because that's when the damage gets done and if we don't keep that historical memor...
Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.
Wealthy people attract critics like wealthy ships attract pirates.
There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.
Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.
Anaemia is an illness primarily affecting characters in novels.
A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.
Constant indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.
Critics are biased and so are readers. (Indeed a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their...
Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.
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