Critics Quotes

1359 Critics quotes by 983 unique authors

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,'… — Ray Bradbury
Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional… — Julian Barnes
In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the… — Charles Simic
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate… — Oscar Wilde
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "science fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics… — Kurt Vonnegut
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. — Mignon McLaughlin
Critics are our friends, they show us our faults. — Benjamin Franklin
Toni Morrison said, "The function of freedom is to free someone else," and if you are no longer wracked or in bondage to a person… — Anne Lamott
Work freely and rollickingly as though you were talking to a friend who loves you. Mentally (at least three or four times a day) thumb… — Brenda Ueland
I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics. — Daniel Dennett
In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself. — John Steinbeck
Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic — Stephen Covey
There are conversations going on about the Church constantly. Those conversations will continue whether or not we choose to participate in them. But we cannot… — M. Russell Ballard
Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin… — Dale Carnegie
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you. — Natalie Goldberg
People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American. — David Sedaris
In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a… — Frank McCourt
Perfectionism doesn't believe in practice shots. It doesn't believe in improvement. Perfectionism has never heard that anything worth doing is worth doing badly--and that if… — Julia Cameron
As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any… — Lord Byron
No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche. — Walter Kaufmann
Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it.… — Jean Cocteau
Americans have a taste for…rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Be your own worst critic. When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't. Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will… — Paul Arden
A baby is such a blank slate, like training the understudy for a role you're planning to leave. You truly hope your replacement will do… — Chuck Palahniuk

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