Critics Quotes

1359 Critics quotes by 983 unique authors

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
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read… — Charles Caleb Colton
There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write… — Harlan Ellison
A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less. — Henry Edward Manning
Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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