Jennifer Egan Quotes

Criticism is fine and conversation is fine, but the person who's criticizing should know what they're saying and whom they're criticizing.

Jennifer Egan

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• Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Done
  • Night

• Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Movie
  • You
  • Criticism

• Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Writing
  • Place
  • Criticism

• I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Work
  • Different
  • Writing

• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dad

• Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Criticism
  • Made
  • Prejudice

• I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Rock
  • Always
  • Kid

• In the process of ego, in the process of lobbying and in the process of just criticising for stake of criticism or in the process of politicising, don't commit national crime. Don't prevent exploration in the country. Let us move ahead more aggressively; it is in the best interest of the country.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Country
  • Best
  • Criticism

• Enlightenment values of individual freedom are manifested best in individual acts of criticism and defiance.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Freedom
  • Best
  • Criticism

• There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain. Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Work
  • Men
  • Criticism

• I used to read the criticism on blogs about other people - mostly female actresses and singers - and even when they are extremely perfect and harmless, people still go after them. So I figure, if I'm going to get negativity regardless, why do I have to worry about what somebody thinks of me?

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Why
  • Perfect

• Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Job
  • Criticism
  • Seriously

• The most destructive criticism is indifference.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Criticism
  • Indifference

• Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

  

  Harold Bloom
  • Passion
  • Criticism
  • Poems

• Listening in response to criticism mandates a shift in our internal psyche that marks perhaps the most important single evolutionary shift humans can make.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Important
  • Single
  • Listening

• There is nothing wrong with us sitting down and arguing that issue that we are a European country.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Country

• Scientific dogmatics must devote itself to the criticism and correction of Church proclamation and not just to a repetitive exposition of it.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Church
  • Criticism

• Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Criticism

• Criticism is a destroyer of self-worth and esteem. It is heartbreaking how criticism can wound children and diminish their self-esteem.

  

  H. Burke Peterson
  • Children
  • Criticism

• Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Pretty
  • Living
  • Rejection

• I don't feel old or used up, and I don't have time to waste thinking about aging, because I live only for my cause.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Up
  • Time
  • Thinking

• You were able to sing something they related to instantly, because it was part of what you felt. It was part of what you had already traveled through. It's part of the people you were associating with daily. It was all of that.

  

  Benjamin Earl King
  • People
  • Daily

• Quite often people will get an animal which is probably not a good idea for them to have. They get it out of enthusiasm, there is a genuine interest, but sometimes they're not exactly prepared for what they're getting themselves into.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Animal

• Criticism is fine and conversation is fine, but the person who's criticizing should know what they're saying and whom they're criticizing.

  

  Jennifer Egan
  • Criticism