Critics Quotes

The victory is not to change the mind of the critic; it is to evaluate what you can learn and discard, yet still walk away with peace in your heart.

Constant indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not obliged to be an author. He invited publicity, and he must take the publicity that comes along.

Smile at your critics for they have yet to see the universe that exists outside the box

Procrastination threatens critics’ livelihood.

I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me to sleep, because I was tired and small, too weak to take or handle those opinions and views, attacking me from every angle. Against my art, against my self, against my very way of living. I collected my thoughts, my few possessions and built isolated walls around my values and character. I protected my own definition of beauty and success like a treasure at the bottom of the sea, for no one saw what I saw, or felt the same as I did, and so I wanted to keep to myself. You hide to protect yourself.

You will never be free until you free yourself from the prison of other people's opinions of you.

Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking.

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.

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

Always bring money along with your complaints.

Stop expecting the world to affirm you as a person. Half of the world will like you and the other half will hate you, despite what you say or do. Christ knew this truth, but he did his life mission anyways.

Never presume to know a person based on the one dimensional window of the internet. A soul can’t be defined by critics, enemies or broken ties with family or friends. Neither can it be explained by posts or blogs that lack facial expressions, tone or insight into the person’s personality and intent. Until people “get that”, we will forever be a society that thinks Beautiful Mind was a spy movie and every stranger is really a friend on Facebook.

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good' critic.

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

Still the voices of your critics. Listen intently to your own voice, to the person who knows you best. Then answer these questions: Do you think you should move ahead? How will you feel if you quit pursuing this thing you want to do? And what does your best self advise? What you hear may change your life.

There is, perhaps, no more dangerous man in the world than the man with the sensibilities of an artist but without creative talent. With luck such men make wonderful theatrical impresarios and interior decorators, or else they become mass murderers or critics.

Don’t answer every critic. Sometimes, the answers you give may be right but misconceived and misunderstood.

It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.

Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.

I am not stopping till my critics become my fans.

If you have to explain your sense of humor, then you are performing for the wrong crowd.

Without self-discipline, your streams of grace become a flood of disgrace. Never let indiscipline weigh you down for critics to pick mockeries on.

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world--they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one.

I started this dirty quote business when I noticed that I only tend to read authors when their quotes convince me of wit and style. In a world overflowing with bad literature and corrupted product-placement critics the only weapon one has is either word of mouth or quotes, and me I highly prefer the latter. So I have just decided that I will only post to facebook through goodreads quotes. That's policy that makes a lot of sense for a writer.

It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.

Often people that criticise your life are usually the same people that don't know the price you paid to get where you are today. True friends see the full picture of your soul.

Critics are biased and so are readers. (Indeed a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.

When they try to judge you,remember, they themselves are judged.When they try to condemn you,remember, they themselves are condemned.When they try to break you,remember, they themselves are broken.When they try to hurt you,remember, they themselves are hurting.

The IGAD-Plus's compromise peace agreement is probably pregnant with a noisy, perhaps thunderous baby.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art

I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.

I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it increases the chance that he or she will look at mine. So there is no competition between writers. Another writer's success helps build a larger readership for all of us.

The critic is an overgoer with pen-envy.

If you invest in your critics more than you invest in your dreams, you have successfully invested in your failure.

Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

The closer you are to the end of your temporal trials, the louder the voice of critics. Close your ears to the heavy downpours of their discouragements. God whispers; “I am with you”!

The truth may roar, but it's roaring does not terrify the blameless. Guilty conscience needs neither a critic nor an accuser. Remember, the truth has no aiding crutches; once it is limping, its name is "a lie'.

Critics! Appalled I ventured on the name.Those cutthroat bandits in the paths of fame.

You may face opposition not only because you are doing something wrong, but because you are doing something right. Not all oppositions are meant for a better life!

Critics do not determine how high an eagle flies.

The critics greeted this book with a churlish and horrified outcry. Certain virtuous people, in newspapers no less virtuous, made a grimace of disgust as they picked it up with the tongs to throw it into the fire. Even the minor literary reviews, the ones that retail nightly the tittle-tattle from alcoves and private rooms, held their noses and talked of filth and stench. I am not complaining about this reception; on the contrary I am delighted to observe that my colleagues have such maidenly susceptibilities.