86 quotes found
“Before cruelly vilifying them from a great height, the mudslingers at newspapers and journals should bear in mind that all artistic endeavors were by and large a mixture of effort and imagination, ...”
“Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.”
“But you don't hold yourself superior to all the judges of music?" she protested."No, no, not for a moment. I merely maintain my right as an individual. I have just been telling you what I think, in...”
“Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.”
“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 i...”
“Many critics are born of envy.”
“A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.”
“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.”
“Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.”
“Constant indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.”
“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 the...”
“Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.”
“Henry James chews more than he bites off.”
“I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.”
“It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.”
“The critic is an overgoer with pen-envy.”
“Two and two continue to make four in spite of the whine of the amateur for three or the cry of the critic for five.”
“Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.”
“He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help.”
“More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader and would no more read a book alone if they could help it than have a baby alone.”
