Quotes About Critics

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

Bullfight critics, ranked in rows, Crowd the enormous plaza full. But only one is there who knows, And he's the man that fights the bull.

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest

Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could; they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could; they have tried their talents at one or at the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics.

What makes a good book? Scholars and critics have been debating that question for decades. I like books that touch my head and my heart at the same time.

If I read or listened to critics of our music. I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.

People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.

A man must serve his time to every trade, Save censure-critics all are ready made. Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote With just enough learning to misquote.

The prevailing taste of the public for anecdote has been censured and ridiculed by critics, who aspire to the character of superior wisdom: but if we consider it in a proper point of view, this taste is an incontestible proof of the good sense and profoundly philosophic temper of the present times. Of the numbers who study, or at least who read history, how few derive any advantage from their labors!

She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say was good.

She had no ambition to write a good book, but was painfully anxious to write a book that the critics should say was good. Had

Though he had a devoted coterie of fans who subscribed to his information service—in an earlier age, he would have been called a pop scientist—he had an even larger circle of critics. The kinder ones considered that he had been educated beyond his intelligence. The others labeled him a self-employed idiot. It

Critics who suggested that these ideas were too fantastic to be taken seriously were reminded of Niels Bohr's 'Your theory is crazy - but not crazy enough to be true.' If

But he meant beauty in the sense of its organic connection to the material. And this is the connection that, for me, separates true stylists from decorators. The decorators are easy to recognize. That's why critics love them so.

One modern oratorio adaptation, The Gospel at Colonus (by Lee Breuer and Bob Telson, 1989), based on Robert Fitzgerald's translation in our series, has been acclaimed by critics and audiences as a high point of twentieth-century adaptation of Greek tragedy.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.

Critics are only concerned with what affects them. And feeling empathy is a gift not many possess.

Your mockers will only have your attention only if you give them your attention

When dealing with critics always remember this: Critics judge things based on what is outside of their content of understanding.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

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]

Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.