The critic is an overgoer with pen-envy.
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.
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.
To fail, try to please your critics. To please your critics, try to fail.
In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
Any fool can criticize and many of them do.
The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights actors and audiences - a figure dreaded and occasionally comic but never welcome never loved.
Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.
If you invest in your critics more than you invest in your dreams, you have successfully invested in your failure.
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.
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...
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