Critic Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going…

— Mark Twain

Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.

— George Herbert

Since I'm a story-oriented critic, sometimes it's difficult to discuss issues without defining them. At the same time, I try not to give away…

— Stephen Hunter

Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there…

— Jean Kerr

The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.

— Oscar Wilde

I was brought up to be sympathetic toward others.

— Joyce Carol Oates

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

You can't dictate if a character's going to come off as sympathetic to an audience. I just tried to play it as honest as…

— Donnie Wahlberg

No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.

— Nan Goldin

Demographically, I'm a hippie from San Francisco and I'm not culturally inclined to be sympathetic to states' rights. My cultural heritage is FDR and…

— Naomi Wolf

...I have to tell you that I'm not all that comfortable with the idea of spending the rest of my life sleeping next to…

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips