Behavior Quote by Eugene Ionesco

“As I said, I started with poetry, and I also wrote criticism and dialogue. But I realized that I was most successful at dialogue.…

— Eugène Ionesco

You have to accept the criticism but you also have to consider how much of what is said and written is actually true.

— Javier Zanetti

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

One of the things I constantly think about as a writer is the way in which people are full of contradictions - there's all…

— Justin Cronin

There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.

— Anne Stevenson

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but…

— Joyce Carol Oates

And if you are honest about the words coming out of your characters' mouths, you'll find that you've let yourself in for a fair…

— Stephen King

Look for the contradictions in every character, especially in your heroes and villains. No one should be what they first seem to be. Surprise…

— Elia Kazan

I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.

— Winston Churchill

At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory,…

— Lanford Wilson

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

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