Quotes About Critics

David Manning White] maintains that critics romanticize the past in order to castigate the present.

For obvious reasons, the relationship between novelists, the reviewing establishment and critics in general is chronically, and often acutely, edgy. A kind of low-intensity warfare prevails, with outbreaks of savagery. It is partly an ownership issue. Who, other than its creator, is to say what a work of fiction means or is worth? It can take years to write a novel and only a few hours for a critic, or a reviewer rushing for a tight deadline, to trash it.

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You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.

I should be the last woman to thumb my nose at the gentlemen whose judgments make or break a play in New York. They have treated me handsomely. But two or three of them write with a chisel.

Between you and me, the critics don't know a great deal about acting, either. The more experienced and scholarly can detect feeble plays without a Geiger counter, even though occasionally they hail as masterpieces items which offend the nose of the property man.

If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.

When pardoners allowed the belief—though never explicitly stated by the popes—that indulgences could take care of future sins not yet committed, the Church had reached the point of virtually encouraging sin, as its critics did not fail to point out.

Whatever the critics make of 'Maestro,' I hope they don't call it a reality show.

Critics have a job to do. They do not criticise you without reason.

What's better than being able to entertain people? When you receive love from the public, it doesn't matter what the film circuit or critics say.

Most writers of entertainment fiction tend to receive controversial reviews.

Outside their country, Hungarian directors have had, from the critics at least, a friendly reception.

I'm just blessed. To be recognized by critics - that's been fun, that's been nice them showing love.

I have some friends, most of them are writers or editors, whose recommendations I trust blindly. There are some critics, too, whom I trust, but not many.

Some filmmakers make films to please themselves and a handful of critics, so they get 5-star reviews but their films don't run at the box office. I make films for the masses.

Movies are hard work. The public doesn't see that. The critics don't see it. But they're a lot of work. A lot of work.

All the London critics, including Kenneth Tynan and Harold Hobson, came down to Bristol to see 'The Crucible'.

Everybody has haters and lovers. That's what life is all about.

You're going to have haters and you're going to have lovers.

There are always going to be haters.

No matter what happens, you're always going to have those critics and those haters. You just have to learn how to deal with that. I think I have and accept that.

I have haters. I have so many haters.

I'm not really concerned with trying to turn haters into believers.