Critics Quotes

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This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. — Dorothy Parker
Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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… — Mark Twain
Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer… — Wystan Hugh Auden
In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that… — Jorge Luis Borges
Critics should find meaningful work. — John Grisham
I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as… — George Bernard Shaw
By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with… — Jack Kerouac
When I was a younger man, art was a lonely thing. No galleries, no collectors, no critics, no money. Yet, it was a golden age,… — Mark Rothko
There are 500 reasons I write for children.... Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about the critics.... They don't read to… — Isaac Bashevis Singer
The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country,… — Edward Abbey
A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained… — P.G. Wodehouse
It has been said that Ernest Hemingway would rewrite scenes until they pleased him, often thirty or forty times. Hemingway, critics claimed, was a genius.… — James N. Frey
The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed. — J.R.R. Tolkien
You may not want to hear it, but your critics are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and… — Randy Pausch
It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are,… — Mahatma Gandhi
The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age. — L. Ron Hubbard
I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. — Georgia O'Keeffe
A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice. — David Gerrold
It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one. — Chuck Palahniuk
Youth need less critics and more models. — Thomas S. Monson
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself. — Oscar Wilde
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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