Actor Quote by John Steinbeck

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

— Oliver Goldsmith

One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions,

— Anton Chekhov

The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by…

— George Steiner

The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a…

— Anton Chekhov

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

The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.

— Kenneth Tynan

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like

— Anonymous

“Don't listen to critics. Their job is to critique. You're a writer. Your job is to write.”

— Ksenia Anske

If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.

— Rita Mae Brown

“The critic's aim should be to interpret the work they are writing about and help readers appreciate it, by defining and analysing those qualities…

— David Cecil

If a man writes a brilliant enough play in praise of something that is universally loathed, the play, if it is good and well…

— Edward Albee

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world…

— Joseph Addison