Criticism Quote by Anonymous

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Criticism is not a circumscription or a set of prohibitions. It provides fixed points of departure. It may startle a dull reader into alertness.”

— Ezra Pound

Valid criticism is something that we are open for, and we take it in the spirit in which it is given and try to…

— Urjit Patel

Criticism is a funny thing, because I think if you want to be something, create something or make a difference in any walk of…

— Mike Ashley

Criticism at the wrong time, even if it's legitimate criticism, can be seriously damaging and make the writer lose faith in what he's doing.…

— Donna Tartt

A critic can serve as guide. I think there's an understanding amongst the public that critics have their own preferences and dislikes.

— Michael Hersch

Criticism is good and it doesn't really bother me.

— Hardik Pandya

A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of…

— Michel Foucault

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do.

— Thomas Sadoski

Criticism ultimately at some degree is about the writer and not the subject. It's very easy if everybody else says, "He's a genius," to…

— Gary Giddins