Quotes About Critique

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Directors need to be happy constructively questioning and criticizing each other,

Die Künste, die den Müll der Welt zu spiegeln vorgeben, vermehren ihn nur.

Satire is an abuse of wit. It corrects few evils.

The first hint of what is to come occurs near the end of Luther's obscurity. In September 1517 the dutiful Johann Rhau-Grunenberg publishes a one-page broadsheet by Luther with a boring title: A Disputation against Scholastic Theology. In his broadsheet, Luther ironically lists concise propositions to be argued over—a central practice of scholasticism—in order to criticize scholasticism itself, sort of like a poet writing a poem to criticize poetry.

Whenever Jeff Bezos roamed a fulfillment center or his own Seattle headquarters, he looked for defects—flaws in the company's systems or even its corporate culture.

His face reminded Myron of a magnified photo of head lice.

I can't bear these accounts I read in the Times and elsewhere of these poetry slams, in which various young men and women in various late-spots are declaiming rant and nonsense at each other. The whole thing is judged by an applause meter which is actually not there, but might as well be. This isn't even silly; it is the death of art.

How to read 'Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone'? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better, Rowling will have to do.

For Ibsen, gusto forgives almost everything.

The music instructor. He taught a course in what was wrong with Southern church music. He was from New Jersey," said Herbert.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

A person might see that I've blurbed a certain book and decide they want nothing to do with it! Like, 'If that reprobate Toews likes it, forget it!' So, it's a crapshoot. But it feels good to be able to praise a book that I love or that has been written by a new writer.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.

It is a fine line between making fun of the right thing and making fun of the wrong thing. And the language oftentimes is the same.

Read not Milton, for he is dry; nor Shakespeare, for he wrote of common life.

When I wrote 'Pink Houses,' nobody was talking about that, right? The next thing I know, you can't see the TV without hearing commercials with 'Listen to the heartbeat of America,' or 'Born the American way.' That whole America thing now - I hate it.

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.

Rattigan wrote some very good plays.

I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote.

If it were bad songs, yeah, I'd speak up, but they're not bad songs.