372 quotes found
“In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.”
“(Feedback) People become addicted to it. Thats why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front c...”
“To call you my critic is to call you my friend.”
“I have often misunderstood men grossly, and I have misrepresented them when I understood them, sacrificing sense to make a phrase. Here, of course, is where even the most conscientious critic often...”
“The pleasure of criticism takes away from us the pleasure of being deeply moved by very fine things.”
“I want to say to the literature teacher who remains wilfully, even boastfully ignorant of a major element of contemporary fiction: you are incompetent to teach or judge your subject. Readers and st...”
“There are those who see film and take it seriously as an artistic medium, and others who go to have a good time, to simply be entertained. I have to be careful , because it sounds like I am condemn...”
“Anaemia is an illness primarily affecting characters in novels.”
“Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than you can bear. Marriage may change your circumstances for the better, but in my private opinion, it...”
“How is he made? Oftentimes bitter, sometimes sweet, seldom even wide-awake, architectural criticism of "the modern" wholly lacks inspiration or any qualification because it lacks the appreciation t...”
“If yourhands are tied towardsanyone who's in need ofa helping hand, let yourtangue also be tied”
“Nothing ruins a good thing quite like knowing you share your opinions with mindless little tits.”
“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.”
“Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say youve got a pretty neck”
“A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone.”
“Now that I think about it, it seems to me thats what Idiocy is: the ability to be enthusiastic all the time about anything you like, so that a drawing on the wall does not have to be diminished by ...”
“As soon seek roses in December, ice in June,Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaffBelieve a woman or an epitaphOr any other thing thats falseBefore you trust in critics.”
“If we wear our worst reviews like a backpack, they travel with us.”
“The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.”
“People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.”
