Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
It is tough to run for public office and face an opponent, to decide on issues what is the best thing, then… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
Criticism of a government can, of course, come from those who also have racist intent. We should always be careful not to… — Mary Katharine Ham Copy Share Image
Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be broken beyond repair. — Solomon Copy Share Image
When you leave Real Madrid - a famous club worldwide - it's normal to get criticism. — Robinho Copy Share Image
Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen,… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The legitimate aim of criticism is to direct attention to the excellent. The bad will dig its own grave, and the imperfect… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Fools take criticism and dish it back. The wise take it and turn it to their advantage. — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
I'm not saying Sonic Youth was a conceptual-art project for me, but in a way it was an extension of Warhol. Instead… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls.... Most of us assume there is something goodin every… — Katharine Sergeant Angell White Copy Share Image
The minute you stop overwhelming your mind with caring about what everyone else thinks, and start doing what you feel in your… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
I don't have a very high opinion, actually, of the world of criticism - or the practice of criticism. I think I… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
People who aren't known for being artists do come in for criticism when they exhibit pictures. Paul McCartney, Tony Curtis, Mo Mowlam's… — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
First one gets works of art, then criticism of them, then criticism of the criticism, and, finally, a book on The Literary… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
