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Critics Quotes by Ernest Hemingway
- All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and…
- I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up…
- If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so,…
- Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.
- God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.
- I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
- Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do…
- God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore.…
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- Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation… — James A. Baldwin
- I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and… — Charles Barkley
- I don't listen to what art critics say. I don't know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is. — Jean-Michel Basquiat
- It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. — Charles Baudelaire
- A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. — Jean Baudrillard
- A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to… — Joseph Addison
- Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. — Joseph Addison
- We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they… — Henry Ward Beecher