Quotes About Criticism

Who were my fictitious witches and what did they mean? Never ask that of yourself while writing. It may stop you cold. Just trust that if you believe in your characters, others will too. ... Whenever I thought too critically about my work, I couldn't write.

All this mundane: merely the ordinary experience of my whiplash generation. Caught between our mothers (who stayed home) and the next generation (who took the right to achieve for granted), we suffered all the transitions of women's history inside our skulls. Whatever we did felt wrong. And whatever we did was fiercely criticized. That was the fate of our generation.

Poate c? tânjesc dup? un miracol… Care anume? S? încetez s? m? v?d acÈ›ionând. S? nu mai fiu actiÅ£a, nici spectatoarea propriei persoane. S? încetez s? m? mai judec, s? m? critic, s?-mi percep impostura. ?i, în cele din urm?, precum un cub de zahar în ap?, s? m? cufund în realitate si s? m? dizolv în ea.

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

In the case of an artistic practice that performs female narcissism..., the threat lies in its making superfluous the arbiters of artistic value. Already presuming her desirability, [she] obviates the modern critical system; loving herself, she needs no confirmation of her artistic 'value

I live in fear of making an honest mistake in conversation followed by some kind of Maoist-style recrimination session.

Criticism is like pain. It's not fun but if it doesn't hurt, no one pays attention.

the liberal believes in freedom in all areas except for his criticism.

Anatole Broyard

Everything that is doddering, squint-eyed, infamous, sullying, and grotesque is contained for me in this single word: God.

As a newcomer I felt that this was indeed a blessed place, capable of unabashedly advertising its flaws, fearing no ridicule and no criticism. That, in essence, is the opposite of provincialism. The great cities of the world are not provincial: They invite complexity, not propaganda.

The only people who say worse things about politicians than reporters do are other politicians.

Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

It is the rare young writer who does not fall in love with the idea of becoming famous, and Melville was no exception. When he remarked years later to Hawthorne that no man "who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows," he was reproving his younger self for having craved it.

A] former Pentagon aerospace design engineer, Pierre Sprey, described Lockheed Martin as "always the sleaziest [of the defence contractors] and they make crappy airplanes. The F-35 is a total piece of crap, far worse than the planes it's replacing.

Nothing in John R. Rice's life or career suggests that he would ever condone or support the racist mob violence that had been on display in Sherman in 1930. But his failure to criticize the Sherman Riot or to call for racial reconciliation or repentance for racial crimes can be attributed to some basic assumptions he must have made.

'National Review' and 'The Weekly Standard' are both left-wing magazines, and I want to destroy them also.

Everybody says how hard comedy is, but, when it comes time to honor things, whether it's on a weekly critical basis or whether it's award time, at that time of the year, comedy is the poor, dumb child of dramatic work.

With feature films, it's a one-time judgment once your film is premiered. Reviews, box office, and then you move on to the next project. With TV, you are being rated and judged weekly for an eight-month stretch.

I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because they thought I was too disgustingly cute, as if that were my fault, you know, as if that was my fault, not the fault of directors and producers and such.

When Paul Beatty's 'The Sellout' was first published in America in 2015, it was a small release. It got a rave review in the daily 'New York Times' and one in the weekly 'New York Times Book Review,' too, for good measure. But by and large, it was not a conversation-generating book.

I don't want to admit it, but I do enjoy the feedback from the audience. It's instant feedback. It's like, you could do a movie, shoot it for a year, wait six months, it comes out and you gotta do three weeks of marketing. Three weeks of that, and everyone goes, 'It sucks.'

When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!

We will all face criticism throughout our lives, no matter where we live and what we weigh.