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A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.
- Frye, Northrop
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German

2.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Cioran, E. M.

3.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter

4.
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

5.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Churchill, Charles

6.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

7.
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo

8.
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Nolan, Sir Sidney

9.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Murdoch, Iris

10.
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Turner, Ted

11.
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney

12.
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
Wilde, Oscar

13.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John

14.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Buxton, Charles

15.
There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
Lewis, Sinclair

16.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin

17.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio

18.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Baudrillard, Jean

19.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Addison, Joseph

20.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

21.
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John

22.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Fuller, Margaret

23.
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

24.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg

25.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden

26.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher

27.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

28.
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
Dahlberg, Edward

29.
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

30.
I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.
Cartwright, Bill

31.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
Lawrence, D. H.

32.
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Pollock, Channing

33.
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

34.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline

35.
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De

36.
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

37.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton

38.
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.
Hemingway, Ernest

39.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

40.
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
Meir, Golda

41.
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
Joubert, Joseph

42.
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Holtz, Lou

43.
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius

44.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Johnson, Samuel

45.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Thoreau, Henry David

46.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Costello, Elvis

47.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Helvetius, Claude A.

48.
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.
Auden, W. H.

49.
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

50.
I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
Barkley, Charles


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