Critics Quotes

1359 Critics quotes by 983 unique authors

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to… — Edouard Manet
There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found in all real… — Friedrich Schiller
Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free. — Nat King Cole
A man may be as straight as an arrow, but even then he will have some critics. — Unknown Author
Despite the international scientific community's consensus on climate change, a small number of critics continue to deny that climate change exists or that humans are… — David Suzuki
The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself. — Anthony Trollope
Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull. The primitive audience was an audience of shock-heads, gaping around… — E. M. Forster
Honest criticism and sensible appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Editors are extremely fallible people, all of them. Don't put too much trust in them. — Maxwell Perkins
The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror. — Flannery O'Connor
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… — Ernest Hemingway
No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work. — Mark Twain
You need a good editor because every writer thinks he can write a War and Peace, but by the time he gets it on paper,… — Samuel Johnson
Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves! — Constantin Stanislavski
Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes. — George Herbert
Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes. — John O'Hara
The job of the critic is to report to us his moods. — Oscar Wilde
The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not. — Edward Albee
I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good… — Anton Chekhov
I have just read your lousy review. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eightulcer man on a four… — Harry S. Truman
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing. — Joyce Carol Oates
The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't. — William Faulkner
The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it. — Mark Twain
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,… — Ernest Hemingway

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