Amusing Quote by Storm Jameson

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

— Steven Berkoff

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

Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

— Mitch Albom

Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“Critics were rigid and hidebound, never willing to give due credit for anything that didn’t fit in with their predetermined parameters of what fiction…

— Therese Anne Fowler

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Reviewers and critics can be overly cynical. If something the least bit sentimental comes up, they'll often start flying off the handle. But I'm…

— Anonymous

Literary studies were no more than a series of autopsies performed by heartless technicians. Worse than autopsies: biopsies. Vivisection. Even movies, which I love…

— Stephen Fry

I don't read critics, and I don't care what they say. You can't let them steal your soul. You do what the director and…

— Blythe Danner

“A writer is a genius not when critics say so, but when her or his book pierces your heart and rips off your blindness…

— Ksenia Anske

“When a hot trend turns into a sub-category, new strictures arise along with it. Tropes turn into shortcuts, character paradigms become cardboard cutouts. Publishing…

— Donald Maass

I found out about reviews early on. They're mostly written by sad men on bad afternoons. That's probably why I'm less angry than some…

— Barry Hannah