At that shameful stage in the development of our criticism, literary abuse would overstep all limits of decorum; literature itself was a totally extraneous matter in critical articles: they were pure...
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...
To fail, try to please your critics. To please your critics, try to fail.
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.
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.
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
In judging others folks will work overtime for no pay.
Anaemia is an illness primarily affecting characters in novels.
Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art
Criticism is like dissecting a dead frog," Caleb said when the book was published. "They're examining all the guts and shit and organs, when the thing that really matters, whatever it was that animate...
I am sitting in the smallest room in my house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.
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...
A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.
It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it m...
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee rebuke a wise man and he will love thee.
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.
Wealthy people attract critics like wealthy ships attract pirates.
I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it increases the chance that he or she will look at mine. So...