Motivational Quotes
Criticism
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

Best Quotes about Criticism
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Mcclung, Nellie
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.
Fiedler, Leslie
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Sontag, Susan
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
Sontag, Susan
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
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
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
Orwell, George
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin
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
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
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of meanings.
Sontag, Susan
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Flagg, Fannie
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
Dahlberg, Edward
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
Johnson, Samuel
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Addison, Joseph
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord
A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
Washington, Denzel
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Nolan, Sir Sidney
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
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
Gibbon, Edward
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
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Edith Wharton
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
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
Lowell, James Russell
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
Mascotte, John P.
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Baudrillard, Jean
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
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Holtz, Lou
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John
Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
Carnegie, Dale
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
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Turner, Ted
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
Keats, John
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