Books Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Anonymous

A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon…

— Jonathan Swift

A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of…

— Helen McCloy

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

— John Mason Brown

A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.

— Whitney Balliett

A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.

— Henry Edward Manning

A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.

— Paul Gauguin

The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

— Steven Pressfield

The critic is genius at one remove; he is not unlike an actor on the stage, and incarnates in his mind, as the actor…

— George Edward Woodberry

A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this;…

— Robert A. Heinlein

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

— Mignon McLaughlin