Hidden Quote by Gore Vidal

Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.

— Benjamin Disraeli

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

— Benjamin Disraeli

As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

— Peter Greenaway

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.

— Herman Melville

Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics.

— Anthony Burgess

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

Have you ever noticed how most critics disagree with the public? That should tell you a lot about critics.

— Shia LaBeouf

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

Don't get me started on critics.

— Beverly Sills

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written

— Irwin Shaw

I have a lot of critics; we all know that.

— Hope Solo

Art critics are like every other critic.

— Marc Jacobs