Quotes About Criticism

With publicity comes humiliation.

We can all accept criticism of creative work, but to be publicly ridiculed for it is incredibly difficult to deal with.

I mean, I don't really pay too much attention publicly to what people think.

It's hard to expose your personal life publicly, and everyone has an opinion.

When you're under a microscope from an early age, you realize that people aren't always going to like you. And that's OK. And you're going to fail publicly, and that's OK, too.

It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.

If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.

The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.

We've been hearing about the death of the novel ever since the day after Don Quixote was published.

I got the writing bug in the fourth grade when a poem of mine was published in the school newspaper. Music criticism came a little later, when I was in high school.

Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.

I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir.

Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women.

If you're going to have a book published in China, that means that you're going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don't get onto bookstore shelves.

I was talking to my publisher, Jamie Ceretta, who's one of my closest confidants and allies when I'm working on new music. I feel like I can always count on his judgement because he'll tell me if he doesn't like something. It's sometimes hard to get people to tell you if they don't like something.

Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.

There have been instances of many trying to pull me down in Mollywood. However, I have no complaints.

Anyone can make anyone else look bad if they really want to pull things apart enough.

If someone pulls me down, I pull them down, as I don't feel I should live my life in the way other people want me to. If they have a problem with my films, I can rip off their films, be it comedy or their family dramas, which are low on content and have over-theatrical acting.

People are always ready to pull you down.

People keep saying Aldo deserves this, he deserves that - how the hell do you deserve something when you pulled out of all these events?

There's been so many times when I've heard people not pulling for me. So I just play and try not to think about it.

It seems like they never say anything bad about actors, they just pump them up.

Australians love to pump you up when you're nobody. Then, when you start to put your head above water and say, 'Well, actually, I am a bit different, I am an individual and I do have a particular talent', or whatever, they want to go after you. But the good news is that once you reach a certain level, I think they start to leave you alone.