Critics Quote by Leslie Fiedler

I don't read reviews any more, but I'm told by my publisher who gives me an account of what people have been writing and…

— Paul Auster

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think…

— Duke Ellington

I am never much interested in the effects of what I write…I seldom read with any attention the reviews of my...books. Two times out…

— H. L. Mencken

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

All over the web there are some very good critics and it's become for people who are interested. It's become a very good way…

— Roger Ebert

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

— Jacqueline Leo

Critics are critics: their job is to find things wrong with people.

— Ed Kowalczyk

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but…

— Fiona Apple

The critics don't interest me because they're concerned with what's past and done, while I'm concerned with what comes next.

— Aldous Huxley

I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.

— Antony Gormley

“Critics are important. They give us the reasons, knowingly or unknowingly, not to fall, slumber or deviate from our true purpose . If only…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Critics should find meaningful work.

— John Grisham