In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are many critics who have an idealised version of where my strengths lie. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
My films always play better outside of New York, especially to critics. — Paul Morrissey Copy Share Image
I'm sure critics feel that there's more to me than superficial glamor. — Sherlyn Chopra Copy Share Image
We're so hard on ourselves, and there's a freedom in realizing that we're our toughest critics. — Iliza Shlesinger Copy Share Image
The Braves took some flak when they made me the number one pick. There were critics. — Chipper Jones Copy Share Image
If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
Critics for established venues are vetted by editors; they usually demonstrate a certain objectivity; and they come with known backgrounds and specialized… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American… — Paul Harris Copy Share Image
I'm probably my biggest critic. There's nothing anyone can ask of me that I haven't already asked of myself. — Jhene Aiko Copy Share Image
When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins. — Chuck Jones Copy Share Image
Critics say Arnold has no previous government experience, but advisers say he's clearly the most qualified Austrian, ex-Mr. Universe in the race. — Craig Kilborn Copy Share Image
Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Critics say the OWS protesters hate the rich. Come on! Success is the national religion, and almost everyone is a believer. Americans… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story… — Joyce Maynard 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
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
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
The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets… — C. S. Lewis 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
“A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
The critical sense is so far from frequent that it is absolutely rare, and the possession of the cluster of qualities that… — Henry James Copy Share Image
American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The… — Burton Rascoe Copy Share Image
One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
The point is not that Jesus was a good guy who accepted everybody, and thus we should do the same (though that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
