Blank Quote by Steven Pressfield

For the critic, the author does not exist; only a certain number of writings exist.

— Italo Calvino

I don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal.

— Mack Brown

The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes.…

— Barry Lopez

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 a man who writes about things he doesn't like

— Anonymous

A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

— George Bernard Shaw

Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

— Alexander Pope

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

— Mignon McLaughlin

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“If writers stopped writing about what happened to them, then there would be a lot of empty pages.”

— Elaine Liner

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

“Critics write words but they don't write the future.”

— Jon Gordon