Criticism Quotes

1866 Criticism quotes by 1229 unique authors

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. — Oscar Wilde
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants. — Walter Winchell
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher. — Oprah Winfrey
Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his… — Thomas Wolfe
You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one. — John Wooden
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. — John Wooden
When it is about technology, there is this tendency to just reject all criticism as being anti-technological and anti-modern. I think this is very unhealthy. — Evgeny Morozov
Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism… — William Carlos Williams
A sneer is the weapon of the weak. — James Russell Lowell
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. — Dorothy Parker
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them. — Joseph Heller
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to… — William Faulkner
I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but… — Mark Twain
Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But… — Neil Postman
Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my… — Connie Willis
Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope… — J.R.R. Tolkien
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. — Samuel Johnson
Don't criticize what you can't understand. — Bob Dylan
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed,… — Herman Melville
The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering… — Helen Keller
Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One… — Carl Sagan
We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
What you resist, persists — Neale Donald Walsch
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. — Benjamin Franklin

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