I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
All players are their own worst critics. We are harder on ourselves than anyone else is. — Nomar Garciaparra Copy Share Image
I don't mind what the critics say, so long as I get some reaction. The worst thing is to be ignored. — Les Dawson Copy Share Image
My job as art critic is to watch artists dance naked in public, and then I will, in turn, dance naked critically… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I think the answer has to do with the fact that [Louis D.] Brandeis was a consistent critic of bigness in business… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Critics have a responsibility to put things in a cultural and sociological or political context. That is important. — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to… — Ellie Goulding Copy Share Image
I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
When I first started, especially because I got the Critics' Choice before I'd released an album, there was a lot of scrutiny… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
The very aspect of religions that many of their critics most fear - that the religiously devout, in the name of their… — Stephen L. Carter Copy Share Image
“Critics all have this idea that authors inhabit another dimensional realm, right up to their first smack in the mouth - which… — Don Paterson Copy Share Image
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
Good Luck Chuck, a comedy starring Dane Cook and Jessica Alba, opened today, and critics are saying it has all the belly… — Chelsea Handler Copy Share Image
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I'm praying for Barack Obama to stay on the tightrope because I want to fight his right-wing critics. I want to down… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
I began to read [Bible] as a critic, an in-house critic. So I got to a place where when I got to… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I've written some poems that are in the middle ground - who are in between very challenging and abundantly clear, but there's… — Ted Kooser Copy Share Image
Every art critic and every writer doesn't have a frame to start off from. If I made a statement saying, "This is… — Damian Loeb Copy Share Image
I see around 100 shows a month, going from Niketown-size palaces where you feel like yelling, to storefronts in Bushwick. Each has… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all! — Henry James Copy Share Image
Critics who complain that we don't do anything new will hopefully be happy with 'Oopiri.' — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
I think everyone is their harshest critic, but I strive for excellence as much as I can because I think it shows. — Zachary Levi Copy Share Image
“If your critics lack sense, you are steps ahead of them. If you have sense, you are miles ahead of them.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
I'm my own biggest critic, and the only way I'm going to improve is to see what I was doing wrong. — Chris Bosh Copy Share Image
There is an open terror of the critics (in New York) and of losing fortunes of money. — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
“Leaders create influence with the clays of criticism others throw at them. They don't take offence; they take corrections.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, 'No, Mummy, you can't wear that.' She's very good. I do trust her… — Kate Moss Copy Share Image
“Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.” — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Criticism challenges current findings. The effort to defend one's position can lead to deeper insights or consideration of options previously not considered. — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning… — Helen McCloy Copy Share Image
The care of the critic should be to distinguish error from inability, faults of inexperience from defects of nature. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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