The biggest critics of my books are the people who never read them. — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Being an artist, it's always tempting to measure success through other people's eyes, be they critics, journalists or audiences. — Sara Blecher Copy Share Image
There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Women don't have to listen to their inner-critic and hold themselves back; they can unleash themselves and reach their best potential if… — Sarah Thomas Copy Share Image
In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
After all, poets shouldn't be their own interpreters and shouldn't carefully dissect their poems into everyday prose; that would mean the end… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Less and less is the question being asked as to whether developments are taking place in a democratic and free way. Europe… — Sigmar Gabriel Copy Share Image
The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Critics of the Wall Street protesters claim that they have old ideas, nothing new, and they're never going to work. Wait a… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Doing what we do [filming], you have to be your own critic and judge and adjudicate as to what you do and… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
In terms of the feeling of the piece, I cant think about what people are gonna think about it, what are the… — Godfrey Reggio Copy Share Image
What critics often ask for is the impossible, though this may be a salutary means of extending the borders of art. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The critic interested in a novel manifestation holds his criteria and taste in reserve. Since they were formed upon yesterday's art, he… — Leo Steinberg Copy Share Image
[Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many… — Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr Copy Share Image
Bad critics judge a work of art by comparing it to pre-existing theories. They always go wrong when confronted with a masterpiece… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Winning the war of words inside your soul means learning to defy your inner critic. — Steven Furtick Copy Share Image