Writers are lampposts and critics are dogs. Ask lampposts what they think about dogs. Does the dog hurt the lamppost? — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The thing about living in New York is that there are other artists; that is the most difficult, I think they are… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction. — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
Point out the problems, as long as you have a solution. I don't like critics who aren't doers themselves. — Natalie Massenet Copy Share Image
I am glad that critics and filmmakers liked my work, and I have been warmly welcomed in Bollywood. — Vikrant Massey Copy Share Image
Critics, how I would love if you could clear the word 'sentimental' from your minds. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
In 'The Future and Its Enemies,' I argue that individual creativity and enterprise are not only personally satisfying but socially good, producing… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
I think it's for the critics to decide whether or not their loathing of the play is based on something other than… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant… — Alex Cox Copy Share Image
If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the… — Dree Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Most inequality critics today are economists, journalists, politicians, policy wonks, or political commentators. But most of their ideas are derived from egalitarian… — Don Watkins Copy Share Image
The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
All my career, I've said this: Critics and producers think audiences want actors that only present the silhouette and hit the points… — Patti LuPone Copy Share Image
What is about Palin that drives the elite, especially elite women, crazy? Great looks? That Middle-America accent? The 5 kids and he-man… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Creating senates, the French critics said, implied that there was another social order besides the people represented in the houses of representatives.… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
“I have always said that whomever has limited preferences cannot be a critic, for the same reason some guy who only likes… — Martinus Hendrikus Benders Copy Share Image
You and I can profit by asking ourselves: What do I see when I look through the lens of my attitude toward… — John Powell Copy Share Image
I think as women, you know, if you are considered a pioneer in these things, you can get really distracted by these… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I reject criticism because the last thing I wanted was to sit there and look at people talking. I think people are… — Matt Tyrnauer Copy Share Image
Critics ought never to be consulted, but while errors may yet be rectified or insipidity suppressed. But when the book has once… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Critics are important. They give us the reasons, knowingly or unknowingly, not to fall, slumber or deviate from our true purpose .… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Critics of art are like eunuchs in harem. They see how it's done when the men come to see the women, but… — Gary Busey Copy Share Image
“I'm always eager to respond to human curiosity, but I have no time to entertain ape gossip.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to… — Roselee Goldberg Copy Share Image
I'm not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don't give myself a hard time about it. I… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Critics always get the lyrics wrong in reviews, which is amusing - especially when they use them against you. — Kurt Vile Copy Share Image
Critic, relent!Your hope for repentanceWill meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk! — Abu Nuwas Copy Share Image
Press critics worry that the rise of media polarization threatens the foundation of credible, common information that American politics needs to thrive. — John Harwood Copy Share Image
You write about my flower as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower - and I… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Critics haven't taught me my cricket, and they don't know what my body and mind are up to. — Sachin Tendulkar Copy Share Image
I loved reading when the critics in New York would say that some of my films reminded them of Lenny Bruce. — Robert Downey Sr Copy Share Image
When James Frey's 'A Million Little Pieces' turned out to be largely bunk, critics everywhere secretly rejoiced. They knew it, they said. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
The fact is, for all the critics' talk about me as a realist, I'm making everything up - everything. It is all… — Richard Bausch Copy Share Image
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs. — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
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