I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.
It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
The critic is an overgoer with pen-envy.
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.
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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.
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.
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
His words leap across rivers and mountains but his thoughts are still only six inches long.
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.
Reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee rebuke a wise man and he will love thee.
In judging others folks will work overtime for no pay.
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
If you are willing to take the punishment you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial the battle ugly is another point.
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.
Always bring money along with your complaints.
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
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