372 quotes found
“Not everybody that says that you suck is a hater. There are people who suck.”
“Procrastination threatens critics livelihood.”
“If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life.”
“There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.”
“Critiquing a doer isnt doing.”
“What deserves my loyalty, art or prestige?”
“I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet. But the overwhelming presence of love is vital to understanding how great literature works.”
“As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before hi...”
“Whenever convictions are not arrived at by direct contact with the world and the objects themselves, but indirectly through a critique of the opinions of others, the processes of thinking are impre...”
“I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.”
“To maintain our own economy,we are disturbing the nature's economy”
“Who is the wrong person to criticise?You”
“Some criticism, no doubt, is constructive, but too much is a subtle poison.”
“And when you are criticized, as you will be, remind your critics that you have the right to speak your mind. And if they shout you down, as they probably will, then inform them that since they insi...”
“Dear lady, ... dear gentleman, reader, [it's] not right ... to put down this writer on his writing ... And I'll tell you why, too: it hurts, that's why.... People try to understand why writers comm...”
“A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.”
“Excuses, criticisms, and superstitions are vitamins for haters, but poison for the successful. Rise above!”
“Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.”
“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.”
“It is peculiar to ressentiment criticism that it does not seriously desire that its demands be fulfilled. It does not want to cure the evil. The evil is merely the pretext for the criticism.”
