Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
People have described me as a management bishop but I say to my critics, Jesus was a management expert too. — George Carey 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
I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work. — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I've never met any strong critic of the United States anywhere in the world who gave us any credit for having limit… — Robert Scheer Copy Share Image
Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The great critic … must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Don't respond to negativity with more negativity. Just put your head down and prove your critics wrong. — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves... He… — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
What I like about Broadway is that you are still entertaining. You're standing in front of an audience every night and the… — Ricky Martin Copy Share Image
I just kind of shoot the finger to the critics. I don't give sh - what a critic says. To me a… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person's life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Along with my peers, I gripe about the increasing number of superhero films, and I'm sad that so many critics so uncritically… — David Edelstein Copy Share Image
Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and… — Jascha Heifetz Copy Share Image
When it comes to your inner critic, my advice is to not take advice from someone who doesn't like you. That's like… — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
“Now it turns out that a few broadsheet film critics in Britain do indeed belong to a category of people who would… — David Hare Copy Share Image
When picking a show, I took into consideration who my fans are. Let's be honest, Buffy was a mid-season replacement on The… — Sarah Michelle Gellar Copy Share Image
Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
One of the things I always underscore when I teach criticism is that young critics, or would be critics, frequently have this… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
“ The Scholars "Bald heads forgetful of their sins, Old, learned, respectable bald heads Edit and annotate the lines That young men,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“It's not about you, it's about the story. It's not about the folks who raise an eyebrow because you're not yet published… — Cynthia Leitich Smith Copy Share Image
Even my colleagues don't read classic criticism. And my feeling is that if you don't do that then you're not really practicing… — Gary Giddins Copy Share Image
If your father is an air-conditioner repairman from Nebraska, its conceivable that you might become a CEO, but you can't imagine being… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms. — Irwin Shaw Copy Share Image
The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic. — Victoria Glendinning Copy Share Image
“To fail, try to please your critics. To please your critics, try to fail.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Art editors and critics - people like me - have become a courtier class. — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
