Critic Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.

— Robert A. Heinlein

A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this;…

— Robert A. Heinlein

A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of…

— Helen McCloy

The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor…

— George Edward Woodberry

Everybody wants to be a critic: a critic without the actual accolades to be a critic.

— Bobby Lashley

A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in…

— Walter Savage Landor

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

— Richard Le Gallienne

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like

— Anonymous

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot…

— Gustave Flaubert

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticising.

— D. H. Lawrence

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.

— Theophile Gautier

Criticism ultimately at some degree is about the writer and not the subject. It's very easy if everybody else says, "He's a genius," to…

— Gary Giddins