A book reviewer is usually a ‘barker’ before the door of a publisher’s circus.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
Never criticize your wife’s judgment look whom she’s married!
Rabi ibn Khuthaym was asked, “Why do you never find fault with anybody?” He said, “I am not so fully satisfied with myself that I have leisure to seek out the defects of others. (13th-14thC A.D.)
Most knocking is done by folks who don’t know how to ring the bell.
I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.
Justly to discriminate, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award should be the aim of all criticism.
He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off from old age.
I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read.
It is a fact that more crimes are committed in one year on television than in six major cities of the United States; a threat or an act of violence was enacted every two and one-half minutes on children’s television shows.
