Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
To escape criticism - do nothing say nothing be nothing.
Any fool can criticize and many of them do.
I am sitting in the smallest room in my house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.
The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
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.
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.
We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.
As for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full...
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...
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...
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.
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything
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