Quotes About Critique

Live comedy is fantastic. It's when live comedy is transcribed and reported and critiqued outside of the venue without context that things become complicated.

Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.

He considers the theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander an amputated version of what his original film was, and he doesn't really like the shorter film.

Perhaps it's appallingly written, boring, without merit and unworthy of our time, but at least let us be the judge of that.

She makes tsk-tsk sounds as she unpacks grocery sacks full of Pop-Tarts, mini chimichangas, and a frozen patty-based product called "Chykyn Wingzz," which I suspect contains neither chicken nor wings. "Kel

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.

It's my experience that very few writers, young or old, are really seeking advice when they give out their work to be read. They want support; they want someone to say, "Good job."

It's hard to be objective about your own work.

Although to be fair, cherry picking isn't quite what we do. Cherries are sweet and delicious. What we do is more turd mining. And I'll thank you to give our work the respect it deserves!

It's not my job to critique the writing. I'm there to serve it. I had to figure out a way to make it work.

I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed.

You could say this word is better to use than that word, this sentence is good and that sentence isn't. But you don't determine the value of your work for other people.

My work generally tends to be an all-out, 360-degree subversive take on everything, most of all my own notion of myself as a son, father, husband, human being and male in this culture.

There is no urge so great as for one man to edit another man's work.

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

When you're rereading or editing your book and you start to expect that this work is going to be reviewed, and you can sort of tell which line is going to show up in reviews.

I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.

I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.

I'm a good judge of my own work.

I want my work to be judged, not me.

I'm not a huge fan of my work.

It is important to see that, in the critique of ideology, only those interventions will work which make sense to the mystified subject itself.

This work is either useless or harmful, because there is nothing good about populism. If you wanted to hear my opinion on this issue, that is what I think.