Attention Quote by Edward Albee

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

There are some critics that will just write provocative stuff to get attention, but I would say most of the time that's not the…

— Sam Esmail

“He made writing look easy and critics hate that. They like evidence of a struggle, of creative agony, wringing the masterpiece out of one’s…

— Jessica Zafra

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize on the works of another, who has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

— Joseph Addison

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances.

— Joseph Addison

Different critics go to different lengths to disagree with that sentiment, but ultimately, they're the person experiencing this art, and whatever judgment or taste…

— Chuck Klosterman

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works…

— Karl Kraus

There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of…

— Dennis Potter

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

Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.

— Edna Longley

I don't know what to say about literary critics. I think it's probably best to say nothing.

— Salman Rushdie