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Critics Quotes by Mark Twain
- No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.
- The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.
- This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to…
- The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
- How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with…
- Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
- It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden
More Critics Quotes
- Dare to risk public criticism. — Mary Kay Ash
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov
- Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when… — Kevin Bacon
- Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen,… — Russell Baker
- 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