Criticism Quote by Margaret Fuller Download Open image “The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.” — Margaret Fuller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Criticism Criticism Periodical Periodical Periodical Writing Stamps Use Use Criticism Writing
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 Copy Share Image
“Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Writing is the only art form where a good number of the artists make a slice of their living criticizing one another in print,… — Christian Bauman Copy Share Image
The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The critic's aim should be to interpret the work they are writing about and help readers appreciate it, by defining and analysing those qualities… — David Cecil Copy Share Image
Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically. — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
“Criticism is not a circumscription or a set of prohibitions. It provides fixed points of departure. It may startle a dull reader into alertness.” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book. — Tibor Fischer Copy Share Image
I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer,… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
With the intellect I always have always shall overcome, but that is not the half of the work. The life, the life Oh my… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
It is not because the touch of genius has roused genius to production, but because the admiration of genius has made talent ambitious, that… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
The highest ideal man can form of his own powers, is that which he is destined to attain. Whatever the soul knows how to… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy. — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
I reject criticism because the last thing I wanted was to sit there and look at people talking. I think people are conditioned to… — Matt Tyrnauer Copy Share Image
I'm more comfortable modelling as a man because I don't get any criticism. — Rain Dove Copy Share Image
I don't mind positive criticism, but when it is negative and personal, it is quite hard. — Inzamam-ul-Haq Copy Share Image
Judge a person not by his ability to make money but by his ability to retain it. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Lots of relationships fail because we spend more time pointing out each other's mistakes and not enough time enjoying each other's company. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
