Criticism Quotes

When they first emerged in their present shape around the turn of the 18th century, the so-called hu...

Any writer who puts his words and thoughts out into the public is going to be criticized.

[The critic] serves up his erudition in strong doses; he pours out all the knowledge he got up the d...

Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and e...

I only object when any one particular group...gets a stranglehold on American criticism and squeezes...

Before publication, and if provided by persons whose judgment you trust, yes, of course criticism he...

I want to say to the literature teacher who remains wilfully, even boastfully ignorant of a major el...

I had rather be hissed for a good verse than applauded for a bad one.

In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever s...

Praise and blame alike mean nothing. No, delightful as the pastime of measuring may be, it is the mo...

Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all g...

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her c...

Would it not be wiser, then, to remit this part of reading and to allow the critics, the gowned and ...

Every author believes, when his first book is published, that those that acclaim it are his personal...

The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of ...

The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of ...

Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of write...

I repeat here what you will find in my first chapter, that the only thing that signifies to you in a...

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction betw...

Analysis goes a step farther still, and assures us that those impressions of the individual mind to ...

It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that ...

Critics are biased and so are readers. (Indeed a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely togethe...

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

Imitation is criticism.

If the world like it not, so much the worse for them.

Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--un...

Dear lady, ... dear gentleman, reader, [it's] not right ... to put down this writer on his writing ....

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

(Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to he...

Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write...

Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, orperhaps of subconsciousness—I wouldn't know. But...

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help.

China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In...

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of...

This book is dedicated to Israel's constructive and nuanced critics, whose rational voices are too o...

Let us return for a moment to Lady Lovelace’s objection, which stated that the machine can only do w...

Let us return for a moment to Lady Lovelace’s objection, which stated that the machine can only do w...

Nature gives children great emotional resilience to help them survive the oppressions of being small...

Whenever those immersed in the bureaucratic culture of the age try to think their way through to the...

He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his ...

Most critics, fond of subservient artstill make the whole depend upon a part.They talk of principles...

Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of cr...

The absence of models, in literature as in life, to say nothing of painting, is an occupational haza...

Success needs vision to see, passion to transcend, patience to withstand and the character to overco...

The tower of success stands on the pillars of vision, action, patience and the character to withstan...

The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

...if anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, ci...

The Author To Her BookThou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,Who after birth did'st by my side...

Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than y...

If Makar Denisych was just a clerk or a junior manager, then no one would have dared talk to him in ...

If Makar Denisych was just a clerk or a junior manager, then no one would have dared talk to him in ...

We knock upon silence for an answering music.

Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Criticism is something you can easily avoid — by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.

Don't think for a minute that bad publicity and endless criticism don't leave their claw marks on ev...

Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious new...

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

He left to do whatever editors do.

Guard your tongue, and use it for good instead of evil. How many marriages or friendships have been ...

Guard your tongue, and use it for good instead of evil. How many marriages or friendships have been ...

Guard your tongue, and use it for good instead of evil. How many marriages or friendships have been ...

Guard your tongue, and use it for good instead of evil. How many marriages or friendships have been ...

Guard your tongue, and use it for good instead of evil. How many marriages or friendships have been ...

Guard your tongue, and use it for good instead of evil. How many marriages or friendships have been ...

Guard your tongue, and use it for good instead of evil. How many marriages or friendships have been ...

Guard your tongue, and use it for good instead of evil. How many marriages or friendships have been ...

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them wh...

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done they've seen it done every day but th...

I only accept and pay attention to feedback from people who are also in the arena. If you're occasio...

If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you t...

The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them...

A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.

The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the author...

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out...

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes hims...

Many reviews are useless because, while purporting to condemn the book, they only reveal the reviewe...

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon rea...

We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way....

Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.

Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from t...

Why do we put up with it? Do we like to be criticized? No, no scientist enjoys it. Every scientist f...

deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, wh...

I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about t...

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remai...

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

There was no sense to life, to the structure of things. D.H. Lawrence had known that. You needed lov...

I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of ...

In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-cl...

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...

She recognized in Kelsey the nationalism of liberal Americans who copiously criticized America but d...