Biased Quote by Whitney Balliett

A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.

— Whitney Balliett

“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

A critic can serve as guide. I think there's an understanding amongst the public that critics have their own preferences and dislikes.

— Michael Hersch

CRITICS are people who aren't happy with themselves and love to find faults in others.

— Nishan Panwar

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

— Alexander Pope

But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but…

— Fiona Apple

A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this;…

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Ed Kowalczyk

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than…

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

— Mitch Albom

I read reviews of critics I respect and feel I can learn something from. Right now there are a lot of bottom-feeder critics who…

— Alexander Payne

Yea, there is no way you can get away from critics. It's all over the net. Sometimes it's useful to read things, good or…

— Alexandre Desplat