Fall Quote by E. B. White

“The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For watching his reaction…

— E.B. White

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.

— Groucho Marx

I find it's very confusing when one critic tells you one thing and one tells you something completely different. Unless all the critics agree…

— Nilo Cruz

Critics have to sit through an awful lot of rubbish, and you feel really sorry for them. In fact, I've been in a play…

— Diana Rigg

If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic.…

— Patricia Hampl

Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

— Alexander Pope

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want…

— William Faulkner

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

— Mignon McLaughlin

I have often read critical pieces where the critic said that what the composer was trying to do didn't come off. I have wondered…

— Ornette Coleman

I don't read the reviews because it somewhere affects my work. If some critic doesn't like a movie, I can't keep his criticisms in…

— Gautham Menon

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then…

— Thomas Love Peacock

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

— John Steinbeck