Criticism Quotes

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.

Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

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

Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

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