Certain Quote by Stephen Spender

There is a certain justice in criticism.

— Stephen Spender

“I think that's what changed you, Beth. Your job. The film critic. Critics are parasites. They live off other people's creativity. They bring nothing…

— Rainbow Rowell

“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

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

— John Mason Brown

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

— Ed Kowalczyk

Criticism is, or ought to be, a judicious act.

— Amitava Kumar

The method of the critic is to balance praises with censure, and thus to do justice to the subject and--his own discrimination.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome,…

— Robertson Davies

Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

— Henry James

Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.

— Anonymous

More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader, and would no more read a book…

— Randall Jarrell