Criticism Quote by Truman Capote

“Criticism is not a circumscription or a set of prohibitions. It provides fixed points of departure. It may startle a dull reader into alertness.”

— Ezra Pound

I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“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

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

— Tibor Fischer

“Critics are important. They give us the reasons, knowingly or unknowingly, not to fall, slumber or deviate from our true purpose . If only…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for…

— Ben Hecht

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known…

— George Saintsbury

It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the…

— Judith Crist

“Criticism addressed to a person can only be of benefit if it was said in the right way and at the right time.”

— Eraldo Banovac

When a man publishes a book, there are so many stupid things said that he declares he'll never do it again. The praise is…

— Sherwood Anderson

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other,…

— Ezra Pound

You have to accept the criticism but you also have to consider how much of what is said and written is actually true.

— Javier Zanetti