Critics Quote by Anthony Trollope Download Open image “The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.” — Anthony Trollope ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Critics Editors Habit Habits Severe Writing
“He made writing look easy and critics hate that. They like evidence of a struggle, of creative agony, wringing the masterpiece out of one’s… — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that. — William Golding Copy Share Image
Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no longer alone, they have an investment in critical praise, and they think they must protect it. This leads to a diffusion of effort. The writer watches himself as he works. He grows more subtle and… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share
A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is necessary a writing critic should understand how to write. And though every writer is not bound to show himself in the capacity… — Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury Copy Share Image
“A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Things to be done offer themselves, I suppose, because they are in themselves desirable; not because it is desirable to have something to do. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
You men find so many angels in your travels. You have been honester than some. You have generally been off with the old angel… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
To feel that your hours are filled to overflowing, that you can barely steal minutes enough for sleep, that the welfare of many is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
It is necessary to get a lot of men together, for the show of the thing, otherwise the world will not believe. That is… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“An accepted lover, who deserves to have been accepted, should devote every hour at his command to his mistress.” — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“(On Charles Dickens) It has been the peculiarity and the marvel of this man’s power, that he has invested his puppets with a charm… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There is no road to wealth so easy and respectable as that of matrimony. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But… — Whitney Balliett Copy Share Image
I reject criticism because the last thing I wanted was to sit there and look at people talking. I think people are conditioned to… — Matt Tyrnauer Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. — James Cook Copy Share Image
I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I'm focusing on are my own policy… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The Yippies, their lifestyle is different from mine. But I consider Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman inspired critics of the kind of society that… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
There's a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don't involve show business. I'm going to… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image