Critics Quotes

• 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 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 think women are excellent social critics.

  

  Laurie Anderson
  • Women
  • Critics

• Critics are already made.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Made
  • Critics

• I have a work presently in the Press named 'Six Months in Hell' which you may one day read. I consider it will be worth perusing, bruising badly the morals of Britain and America, while Royalty, clergy, critics, society and bloodhounds of law must all incur its censure.

  

  Amanda McKittrick Ros
  • Work
  • Critics
  • Morals

• 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

• 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

• Everybody is a critic, everybody has a voice, everybody can reach you. Everybody is an expert and that's what makes it fun.

  

  Richard Sherman
  • Fun
  • Voice
  • Experts

• 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

• Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so.

  

  Gertrude Atherton
  • Imagination
  • Writers
  • Truths

• 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

• 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 are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.

  

  Steve Earle
  • Genius
  • Use
  • Term

• A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Critics

• 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

• During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned Old Masters were also pilloried as having manufactured insipid and sugary paintings that were offensive to good taste.

  

  Ernst Gombrich
  • Taste
  • Masters
  • Paintings

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Want
  • Critics

• 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

• Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Helping
  • Poor
  • Critics

• 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

• 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

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