Critics Quote by Anonymous

If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.

— Jonah Goldberg

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.

— Anthony Burgess

We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having read the…

— Samuel Johnson

Critics build nothing.

— Robert Moses

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of…

— Dennis Potter

“Critics write words but they don't write the future.”

— Jon Gordon

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

— Salman Rushdie

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

— Harold Rosenberg

It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.

— Sylvia Plath

“Don't listen to critics. Their job is to critique. You're a writer. Your job is to write.”

— Ksenia Anske

“Critics were rigid and hidebound, never willing to give due credit for anything that didn’t fit in with their predetermined parameters of what fiction…

— Therese Anne Fowler