The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
Doubt your critics, never your dreams;your weaknesses, never your strengths;your enemies, never your friends;and your circumstances, but never doubt yourself.Embrace your intelligence, never your igno...
Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.
If you invest in your critics more than you invest in your dreams, you have successfully invested in your failure.
Any fool can criticize and many of them do.
The critic is an overgoer with pen-envy.
Constant indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.
One of the greatest challenges is not going to the mattresses with someone who criticizes your novel.
In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything
Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.
Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
I want to say to the literature teacher who remains wilfully, even boastfully ignorant of a major element of contemporary fiction: you are incompetent to teach or judge your subject. Readers and stude...