Asking a writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp post how it feels about dogs.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
A good critic is the sorcerer that makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet.
If we were without faults we should not take so much pleasure in remarking them in others.
I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I had not been clear enough to be understood. This assumption allowed me to work my whole life without hatred and even without bitterness toward criticism, regardless of its source. I […]
Think before you speak is criticism’s motto; speak before you think, creation’s.
I wish that I had copies of all the pamphlets written against me, as it is said Pope had. Had I known that I should make so much noise in the world, I should have been at pains to collect them. I believe there is hardly a day in which there is not something about […]
In trusting therefore to the sentence of a critic, we are in danger not only from that vanity which exalts writers too often to the dignity of teaching what they are yet to learn, from that negligence which sometimes steals upon the most vigilant caution, and that fallibility to which the condition of nature has […]
So, Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
A man who tells me my play is very bad, is less my enemy than he who lets it die in silence. A man, whose business it is to be talked of, is much helped by being attacked.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
