Critics Quotes

1359 Critics quotes by 983 unique authors

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of… — Isaac Asimov
I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a… — Raymond Chandler
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing. — Angus Wilson
The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It's… — Barry Lopez
It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is… — Bergen Evans
No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best -… — Robert Adams
Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of Chess. The masters look for them, the public applauds them, the critics praise them. It is… — Reuben Fine
I was blessed to look well and retain a youthful look but that was just genes. I was disappointed when critics started pointing out my… — Robert Redford
To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what they… — Immanuel Wallerstein
The biggest critics of my books are the people who never read them. — Jackie Collins
Our loyalty lies with little taxpayers, not big spenders. What our critics really believe is that those in Washington know better how to spend your… — Ronald Reagan
Listening to critics is like letting Muhammad Ali decide which astronaut goes to the moon. — Robert Duvall
Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer. — Eugene Ionesco
Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld… — Robert Burns
My vocation is more in composition really than anything else-building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army. ...… — Jimmy Page
We all have known good critics, who have stamped out poet's hopes; Good statesmen, who pulled ruin on the state; Good patriots, who, for a… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together. — Mel Brooks
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic. — Ambrose Bierce
My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called… — Harold Pinter
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do… — Oscar Wilde

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