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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
- Collins, Jackie
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.
Chandler, Raymond

2.
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
Galbraith, John Kenneth

3.
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
Edwards, Tryon

4.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

5.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.
Hemingway, Ernest

7.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

8.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.

9.
People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.
DiCaprio, Leonardo

10.
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.
Connolly, Cyril

11.
You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.
Melbourne, Lord

12.
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
Chandler, Raymond

13.
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

14.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese

15.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit

16.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Bible

17.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Conrad, Joseph

18.
You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
Whistler, James Mcneill

19.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Sontag, Susan

20.
You're never s good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
Holtz, Lou

21.
When subjected to the rain of criticism, let?s not curse the rain. Let?s accept it as a part of life. Let?s remember that the more criticism we can successfully handle, the more zest we will experience in our lives.
Sinha, Shall

22.
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De

23.
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.
James, Clive

24.
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Holtz, Lou

25.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Helvetius, Claude A.

26.
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
Tynan, Kenneth

27.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Franklin, Benjamin

28.
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam

29.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

30.
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.
Coen, Ethan

31.
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry

32.
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.
Paglia, Camille

33.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Raphael, Frederic

34.
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico

35.
You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.
Hemingway, Ernest

36.
To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.
James, Henry

37.
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo

38.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor

39.
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.

41.
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose

42.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin

43.
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Henry Fielding

44.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Beecher, Henry Ward

45.
Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
Simms, William Gilmore

46.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John

47.
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.
Fiedler, Leslie

48.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Hubbard, Elbert

49.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell

50.
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world -- though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst -- the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
Sterne, Laurence


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