If it is painful for you to criticize someone, you’re safe in doing it. If you take pleasure in it, hold your tongue.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
The fear of criticism is the kiss of death in the courtship of achievement.
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.
I am learning that criticism is not nearly as effective as sabotage.
I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.
A literary critic is a person who finds meaning in literature that the author didn’t know was there.
In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving.
A book reviewer is usually a ‘barker’ before the door of a publisher’s circus.
To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
