Calm Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other,…

— Ezra Pound

I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I like to…

— Ben Brantley

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known…

— George Saintsbury

If I basically view criticism as sort of an interesting form of writing about oneself, an interesting form of autobiography, then I don't feel…

— Chuck Klosterman

To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other…

— Arlene Croce

I really support criticism as a craft and as a vocation. People who devote as much time to thinking about sound through writing as…

— Tim Hecker

I think criticism is often so pallid, so tame. I wish it were more performative.

— Amitava Kumar

Nice criticism is good when it tells you something. A lot of negative "criticism" isn't criticism at all: it's just nasty, "writerly" cliché and…

— Renata Adler

When you are writing the kind of criticism you hope you're writing, everything depends on keeping your calm or your cool. You're trying to…

— Darryl Pinckney

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

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do.

— Thomas Sadoski

People are more interested in reading bombastic ideas, whether they're positive or negative. Part of me has sort of lost interest in doing criticism…

— Chuck Klosterman