There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for Rolling Stone for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The… — Patrick Stump Copy Share Image
Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics. — Oscar Peterson Copy Share Image
Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an… — Percy Bysshe Shelley 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
You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness -… — Richard Gilman Copy Share Image
I have a work presently in the Press named 'Six Months in Hell' which you may one day read. I consider it… — Amanda McKittrick Ros Copy Share Image
I was on television a couple of years ago and the reporter asked me, "How does it feel being on mainstream media?… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
My criticism hasn't necessarily been informed by the critics I've read. The conversations I've had with friends and fellow musicians have shaped… — Sasha Frere-Jones Copy Share Image
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not. — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
When I hear my first album today I hear myself reading my rhymes but I'm my worst critic. — Rakim Copy Share Image
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you're a critic of the rulers of the United States, you are either demonized, or you are trivialized by the press,… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
“Tis a strange calling!’ muttered Hawkeye, with an inward laugh, ‘to go through life, like a catbird, mocking all the ups and… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
