Criticism Quote by Donna Tartt

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other,…

— Ezra Pound

Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.

— Eugene Delacroix

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Criticism is not a circumscription or a set of prohibitions. It provides fixed points of departure. It may startle a dull reader into alertness.”

— Ezra Pound

I'm sure critics have their purpose, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what…

— Duke Ellington

Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less with their…

— John Dryden

I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by…

— Neil Gaiman

Criticism pretty much follows anything anyone ever does. So, anytime anyone ever writes a song, plays a show, or does whatever they do, there's…

— Chris Cornell

Critics stopped being relevant when they stopped writing to inform and contextualize, and when they started writing to signal who they are, to display…

— Tucker Max

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think…

— Duke Ellington