Country Quote by Katherine Anne Porter

I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.

— Hortense Calisher

I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.

— William Golding

Everyone has to be their own critic.

— Diego Costa

A critic can serve as guide. I think there's an understanding amongst the public that critics have their own preferences and dislikes.

— Michael Hersch

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

— Anonymous

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

— Murray Kempton

Critics stopped being relevant when they stopped writing to inform and contextualize, and when they started writing to signal who they are, to display…

— Tucker Max

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

— Tyne Daly

Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

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

— John Mason Brown

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

— Paul Gauguin

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

— Joyce Carol Oates