Critics Quotes · Page 67

At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after…

— Lanford Wilson

A rather ugly thing starts happening: the playwright finds himself knocked down for works that quite often are just as good or…

— Edward Albee

Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?

— Franz Grillparzer

“If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?”

— Anonymous

A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning…

— Helen McCloy

The critic ... should be not merely a poet, not merely a philosopher, not merely an observer, but tempered of all three.

— Margaret Fuller

I thank God that I became addicted to pain pills, because the process of going through rehab taught me more about myself…

— Rush Limbaugh

To be an artist it is not necessary to make a living from our creations. Nor is it necessary to have work…

— Jan Phillips

I am often asked at what point in my love affair with films I began to want to be a director or…

— Francois Truffaut

I have prided myself with striving for objectivity, something many literary-minded critics dismiss as impossible. But in Washington, reporters are practically the…

— Jon Weisman

I don't like it when they [media critics] see me as this little person who doesn't know what to do with herself…

— Whitney Houston

I'm not a critic. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a philosopher. Arguing that punk has run its course is like saying…

— Patti Smith

The simplest kind of guidance (critique) comes every day, and many times a day in the form of discomfort.

— Barbara Brennan

It's not the critic that counts.

— Theodore Roosevelt

I never think anyone will like what I do. I'm always terrified the critics won't like my film and of course you…

— Terence Davies

I wanted to get my movie noticed WITHOUT spending any ad money. So I made a bit of a spectacle. I recorded…

— Kevin Smith

It's hard to be vulnerable in front of the whole world because everyone's a critic.

— Pattie Mallette

The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which…

— Edmund Clarence Stedman

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

— David Sedaris

Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you…

— Stephen Potter

I think that, right now, I am travelling in many different directions in my mind, on where I wanted to be. So…

— Raekwon

Sometimes you look at the critics and say, 'Nobody else was telling me that, but you were.'

— Richard Cordray

Those advocates who work for world peace by urging a system of world government are called impractical dreamers. Those impractical dreamers are…

— Walter Cronkite

With such a deep rooted interest you can withstand the setbacks and failures, the days of drudgery, and the hard work that…

— Robert Greene

“What is Poetry (My Sonnet, My Rules) Any gargoyle can google the definition of a sonnet, Any robot can write and rhyme…

— Abhijit Naskar