Critics Quote by William Golding Download Open image “I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.” — William Golding ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Critics Mind My own People Writing
I don't think of myself as a critic at all. I'm a reviewer and essayist. I mainly hope to share with others my pleasure… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good, I know… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I'm not a critic, I'm not there to tell people what they should think about something - I just want to kind of enthuse… — Edith Bowman Copy Share Image
“Don't listen to critics. Their job is to critique. You're a writer. Your job is to write.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“Once more, amid the breeze, the shouting, the slanting sunlight on the high mountain, was shed that glamour, that strange invisible light of friendship,… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“There ought to be some mode of life where all love is good, where one love can't compete with another but adds to it.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge… — William Golding Copy Share Image
“I stood, in shame and confusion, seeing for the first time despite my anger a different picture of Evie in her life-long struggle to… — William Golding Copy Share Image
When you take a child who's hollering like hell, sit him on your knee, and say "once upon a time", you stop him hollering.… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible. — William Golding Copy Share Image
“He tried to convey the compulsion to track down and kill that was swallowing him up.” — William Golding Copy Share Image
I'm scared of him," said Piggy, "and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop… — William Golding Copy Share Image
The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But… — Whitney Balliett Copy Share Image
I reject criticism because the last thing I wanted was to sit there and look at people talking. I think people are conditioned to… — Matt Tyrnauer Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square. — John Waters Copy Share Image
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. — James Cook Copy Share Image
I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I'm focusing on are my own policy… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
The Yippies, their lifestyle is different from mine. But I consider Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman inspired critics of the kind of society that… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image
There's a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don't involve show business. I'm going to… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image