Criticism Quotes
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I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.
Rachel Ward
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Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart.
Mary Isobel Catherine Bernadette O'Brien
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Why would a lazy guy become a parent of five? Then again, why would creative people who inherently don't like change and criticism become writers, actors, or comedians? There's something about this process. I joke about it: My kids have made me a better person, and I only need, like, 34 more of them to be a really good guy.
Jim Gaffigan
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I've probably put up with more criticism than a lot of people out there. At the end of the day, you block out everything, especially with your personal life.
Lleyton Hewitt
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The first modern novel was already a product, even an expression, of negative criticism: 'Don Quixote' contains a quite explicit critique of the chivalric romance and its insufficiency to account for the way real life feels when you get up in the morning in 17th-century Spain.
Elif Batuman
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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
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In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.
Lynn Johnston
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I always knew the French had a penchant for criticism and abstract thought. Usually, that just meant they complained a lot.
Pamela Druckerman
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Every inch of my writing career has been influenced by my screenwriting education. I was lucky enough to go to film school at USC, and I got a crash course in how to tell a story efficiently. I learned structure, pace, my style, how to know your audience, and most importantly, how to take criticism and edits properly.
Victoria Aveyard
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Eclectic is a word that appears almost as much as the word smarmy in rock journalism and I've come to the fact, just as a personal side, this reminds of Oscar Wilde's insight that criticism is the highest form of autobiography. I think that's exactly what rock journalism has attempted to do, to celebrate its autobiography at my expense.
Van Dyke Parks
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The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.
Deborah Harkness
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One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.
Jack Canfield
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When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there are publishers that hear it, then people in my management, then my wife and my boys and my friends, and if they're all lovin' it, it's kind of withstanding all the criticism I need.
Luke Bryan
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RoboCop the first movie was fantastic. But even if there was no movie, the concept of RoboCop is brilliant, first because it lends itself to a lot of social criticism, but also because it poses a question, 'When do you lose your humanity?'
Jose Padilha
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Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.
David Chipperfield
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Abilities wither under criticism, they blossom under encouragement.
Dale Carnegie
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Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know it disappears. Then the spectre of a government agent will look over the shoulder of everyone who reads. ... Fear of criticism goes with every person into the bookstall. The subtle, imponderable pressures of the orthodox lay hold. Some will fear to read what is unpopular, what the powers-that-be dislike. ... fear will take the place of freedom in the libraries, book stores, and homes in the land.
William O. Douglas
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
Malcolm Cowley
