Critics Quotes

• I have more critics than Hitler.

  

  Beau Ryan
  • Critics
  • Hitler

• When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.

  

  Gerald Haslam
  • Books
  • Critics
  • Myths

• Critics I don't understand. They get too intellectual. They're not very well-versed in street talk; it takes them longer to say it. So they have to do it in dictionaries and they take longer to say it.

  

  David Bowie
  • Intellectual
  • Critics
  • Dictionary

• I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Trying
  • Actors
  • Lasts

• All things in my novels are real for me. Some western critics said that Garcia Marquez's novels are magic realism. However, I believe that Marquez must have experienced everything in his novels.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • I Believe
  • Novels
  • Realism

• I'm grateful for the likes of Kundera, Murnane, Markson, Berger, and, in his recent work, Coetzee. But no matter how celebrated they are, critics still consider them askance. Elizabeth Costello, for example, is a great novel, but it got quite a critical panning when it was published. The complaint was that it was simply a book of speeches, without the machinery of conventional fiction. Markson's books are compilations of facts and alleged facts, very artfully.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Book
  • Facts
  • Novel

• I don't expect that the scientific community now embraces and kisses me 'Oh wonderful, great you did!' we have to live with critics, this is normal. Chariots of the Gods was full of speculation, I had 238 question marks. Nobody read the question mark. They always said: Mr. Von Daniken is saying... I did not say, I asked the questions, would that be a posibility? In Chariots of the Gods, I made clear difference between a speculations and facts.

  

  Erich von Däniken
  • Community
  • Embrace
  • Critics

• I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Feels
  • Actors
  • Worst

• What I learned: Shun nonbelievers. Ignore critics. Do your best for people who want to dance with you.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Want
  • Critics

• I think women are excellent social critics.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Women
  • Critics

• The very aspect of religions that many of their critics most fear - that the religiously devout, in the name of their faith, take positions that differ from approved state policy - is one of their strengths.

  

  Stephen Carter
  • Christian
  • Religious
  • Names

• What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book.

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • Friends
  • Critics
  • Bublishing

• I don't know what the future may hold for me-or for any of us. But I want you to know that I am a man who likes having critics who are not enemies.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Enemies
  • Critics
  • Don't Know

• I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.

  

  Frank Richard Stockton
  • Hands
  • Critics
  • Whole

• The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Artist
  • Critics
  • Reviews

• The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Shame
  • Critics

• Picture this scene. A critic arrives at the gates of heaven. 'And what did you do?' asks Saint Peter. 'Well', says the dead soul. 'I criticised things'. 'I beg your pardon?' 'You know, other people wrote things, performed things, painted things and I said stuff like, "thin and unconvincing", "turgid and uninspired", "competent and serviceable,"...you know'.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • People
  • Scene
  • Critics

• Those who live off of the donations of capitalism are often its greatest critics.

  

  James Cook
  • Live
  • Critics
  • Capitalism

• The Gay News critic wrote that I 'carried the lilt of the Irish without the brogue'.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Gay
  • Critics

• It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Book
  • Stories
  • Critics

• There's a bait and switch going on here because the critics want the textbooks to question whether evolution occurred. And of course they don't because scientists don't question whether evolution occurred.

  

  Eugenie Scott
  • Evolution
  • Atheism
  • Scientist

• What you want is the thing that critics love and audiences love, but that's the hardest thing to do.

  

  Paul Feig
  • Want
  • Critics
  • Audiences

• The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.

  

  Will Self
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Kind

• If you only took on roles that had the same qualities, then I suppose it might make a critic feel better, if he can see some kind of bedrock. Perhaps that's the old definition of a star, someone who's always going to come up with the same goods. But it intimates limitation to me and I don't want to think of the job like that.

  

  Miranda Richardson
  • Kind
  • Quality
  • Feels

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