Critics Quotes
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If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.
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I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food unrefrigerated, but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms out of a field; have a very simple sense of humor which even my appreciative critics find tiresome; I go to bed late and get up late when possible. I do not travel much.
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Ask a writer what he thinks about critics and the answer you get is similar to what you get when you ask a lamppost how he feels about dogs.
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I look at Van Halen as social workers. What we're really doing is creating jobs for rock critics.
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I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.
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I was never a critic.
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There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will.
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Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.
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There's a standard that we never let ourselves go below. We're our own worst critics.
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One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.
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If you're thinking of becoming a critic, why not make other plans?
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If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
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Although critics of capitalism claim regulations were being gutted during the Bush years, the number of Register pages exploded—as did the amount spent by federal regulatory agencies and the number of people employed by those agencies.
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Critics? I love every bone in their heads.
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There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill.
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Time is the best of critics; and patience the best of teachers.
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I think I have a lot of voices in my head and I guess my inner critic is a female.
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It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.
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I understand the feelings of critics asked to come up with the ten best films of any year, who say, Ten? Ten's a lot! - and those more generous spirits whose thumbs grow as long as Pinocchio's nose from overrating a lot of pictures, because they want the medium to do well, and because they'd like to feel good about it.
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The devil doesn't need an advocate. The brave need supporters, not critics
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This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when I said it.
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When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.
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Slyly, banteringly, but also overbearingly, the critic - the one who does not swallow anything whole, who waits until posterity has consecrated it before... howling - is among those who howl their admiration the way they howl their insults: don't be afraid, don't tremble - the beast doesn't have any nails or teeth, or even brain: it is stuffed.
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The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.
