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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
[Time Magazine, October 31, 1977] — John Osborne

Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it. — Michel De Montaigne

A helping hand is better than a critical tongue. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Learn to use the criticism as fuel and you will never run out of energy. — Orrin Woodward

A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't. — Eleanor Roosevelt

In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me. — Edgar Allan Poe

No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism. — Thomas Jefferson

The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in order to enjoy the critics. — C.S. Lewis

Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism. — Parker Palmer

Wealthy people attract critics like wealthy ships attract pirates. — Orrin Woodward

When criticism doesn't make sense, it is usually coming from a different place. — Shannon L. Alder

The devil's happy when the critics run you off. — Criss Jami

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world
they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one. — C.N. Bovee

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking. — Jonathan Swift

Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again. — Spike Lee

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all! — Henry James

Criticism often hides incompetence & increases vanity. Therefore critics are always more vain that the achievers they criticize. — Steve Cioccolanti

The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument. — Arthur Guiterman

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent. — Nelson Algren

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. — Benjamin Disraeli

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism. — Gore Vidal

Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments. — Richelle E. Goodrich

And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade,
Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made. — Alexander Pope

Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,
Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite. — John Dryden

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything — Gustave Flaubert

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades. — Mark Twain

The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's. — Walter Savage Landor

There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this. — Randall Jarrell

Time is the only critic. — James M. Cain

You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference. — Amit Kalantri

Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are. — Mason Cooley

We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. — Henry Miller

I'm not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15. — Mark A. Cooper

Critics are already made. — Lord Byron

One problem with the work of the New Critics was that their close readings, no matter how brilliant, could not deliver all they seemed to promise. — Jewel Spears Brooker

Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks. — Amit Kalantri

Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning? — Franz Grillparzer

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck — Eli Wallach

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics. — Thomas B. Macaulay

The critics only made me work harder. — Muhammad Ali

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing. — Joyce Carol Oates

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

This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle. — Kurt Schwitters

If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings! — Percy Bysshe Shelley

To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook) — Steven Heighton

The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Those of my critics who declare I have no feeling for form will be filled with delight over the meandering formlessness of these notes. — Sherwood Anderson

By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover). — Brenda Ueland

Critiquing a doer isn't doing. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If they judge God, remember, they will judge you. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life. — Charles Saatchi

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one. — Victor Hugo

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become. — David Coverdale

Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest! — Arthur Conan Doyle

Freedom of Speech has become Freedom of Stupidity on the internet. Some ignominious users should not be given a voice to comment at all. — Michael P. Naughton

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you. — Bryant McGill

To fail, try to please your critics. To please your critics, try to fail. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism. — Quentin Tarantino

The higher you rise, the smaller your enemies. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod. — Alexander Pope

A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned. — George Bernard Shaw

Critics are those who have failed in literature and art. — Benjamin Disraeli

Critics do not determine how high an eagle flies. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves. — Paul McCartney

Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Critics are those righteous experts who judge other people's hard earned accomplishmens as they themselves stand on the sidelines of life. — Aaron Lauritsen

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic. — Leonard Bernstein

If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good' critic. — Roman Payne

Procrastination threatens critics' livelihood. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

She swallowed the ridicule & washed it down with criticism, It was far sweeter than the taste of obscurity. — C.E. O'Grady

Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank. — E.W. Howe

Critics do their job, and I take their criticism seriously. — Zubin Mehta

Critics in New York are made by their dislikes, not by their enthusiasms. — Irwin Shaw