Age Quote by Sylvia Plath

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not…

— Jonathan Swift

Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less with their…

— John Dryden

Critics reach that age when it is as valuable and daring to hold a negative opinion as it is for a positive. We learn…

— Nicolas Roeg

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 are those who have failed in literature and art.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

I don't disagree with the critics often, and I'm not destroyed by bad criticism anymore. There comes a point when you go beyond it.

— Robert Lepage

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

— Harold Rosenberg

Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.

— Joyce Carol Oates

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

— Alexander Pope

Critics should find meaningful work.

— John Grisham