Benefits Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Critics should find meaningful work.

— John Grisham

“[The critic] serves up his erudition in strong doses; he pours out all the knowledge he got up the day before in some library…

— Théophile Gautier

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

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

— Anonymous

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

— Alexander Pope

A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.

— Steven Berkoff

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to…

— W. Somerset Maugham

As for critics, one mediocre writer is more valuable than ten good critics. They are like haughty, barren spinsters lodged in a maternity ward.

— Peter Greenaway

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

— Anonymous

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

— Jacqueline Leo

There is one gratification an old author can afford a certain class of critics; that namely, of comparing him as he is with what…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

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