Books Quote by Karl Kraus

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

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

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Ksenia Anske

The critics are not writers - they're not a part of the creative process; therefore, they should not influence how I go about doing…

— Tituss Burgess

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

Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.

— Jacqueline Leo

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

A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of…

— Michel Foucault

The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would…

— Ang Lee

Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good, I know…

— Frank Sinatra

CRITICS are people who aren't happy with themselves and love to find faults in others.

— Nishan Panwar

Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical.

— Edna Longley