“A critic can call any poem 'doggerel.' That is no more than a slur. 'Doggerel' or 'maudlin' or 'sappy' or 'sentimental' is… — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
Most critical fault-finding, when reduced to its essentials, simply amounts to reproach of the author because he is himself -- thinks, feels,… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
...Terry Jackson, who is the Miami Herald's automotive writer and TV critic. That's correct: This man gets paid to drive new cars… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste. — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
I would consider myself simply a critic of the market economy. My standard isn't primarily political. First of all, it's ecological. And… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I was blessed to look well and retain a youthful look but that was just genes. I was disappointed when critics started… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
When I was a film critic, the reason I kind of found it disenchanting was because the things that I wanted to… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Quit worrying about what other people think and just be who God made you to be. If you will run your race,… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen,… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
Politkovskaya was a known critic of the administration. For this reason, one cannot rule out the possibility that someone would want to… — Alexander Lebedev Copy Share Image
for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The whole movie thing has never been a source of great pride for me, in that Burt Reynolds, who starred in the… — Brock Yates Copy Share Image
I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“I want to say to the literature teacher who remains wilfully, even boastfully ignorant of a major element of contemporary fiction: you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I use biography, I use literary connections (as with Platen - this seems to me extremely helpful for appreciating the nuances of… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There is something particularly unique about the films of Hong Sang-soo...it's got to do with his masterful sense of storytelling... as the… — Martin Scorsese Copy Share Image
The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
