To escape criticism - do nothing say nothing be nothing.
Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste.
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...
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
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.
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world tho' the cant of hypocrites may be the worst the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.
Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.
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...
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
Always bring money along with your complaints.
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader and would no more read a book alone if they could help it than have a baby alone.
Henry James chews more than he bites off.
Not a moment passes these days without fresh rushes of academic lemmings off the cliffs they proclaim the political responsibilities of the critic, but eventually all this moralizing will subside.
It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.
Two and two continue to make four in spite of the whine of the amateur for three or the cry of the critic for five.
Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.