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Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
- Mascotte, John P.
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole

2.
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

3.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin

4.
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.
Carlyle, Thomas

5.
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

6.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Bible

7.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore

8.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

9.
What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He must have the passion of a lover.
Symons, Arthur

10.
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Pollock, Channing

11.
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

12.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Mcluhan, Marshall

13.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

14.
If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.
Ironside, H. A.

15.
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.
Burroughs, William S.

16.
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

17.
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

18.
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
Chandler, Raymond

19.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.

20.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

21.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

22.
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Flagg, Fannie

23.
Let me walk three weeks in the footsteps of my enemy, carry the same burden, have the same trials as he, before I say one word to criticize.

24.
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

25.
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
Wilson, Woodrow T.

26.
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
Pound, Ezra

27.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Hubbard, Elbert

28.
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German

29.
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

30.
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
Algren, Nelson

31.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

32.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern

33.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Sontag, Susan

34.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John

35.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

36.
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's mature critics often are.
Walker, Alice

37.
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

38.
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

39.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.
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

41.
Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
Wolfe, Thomas

42.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Raphael, Frederic

43.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Johnson, Samuel

44.
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
Aragon, Louis

45.
If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
Lincoln, Abraham

46.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

47.
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Holtz, Lou

48.
Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.
Wilder, Thornton

49.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan

50.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean


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