In a writer there must always be two people – the writer and the critic.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
Too many people, especially academics, confuse being critical with thinking critically. But they are only sometimes the same thing – and they are never the same thing when the criticism is reflexive rather than reflective.
Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes.
I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell.
Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.
(Several critics have pointed out that) the play (Saint Joan) could be considerably shortened. I think they are mistaken. The experienced knights of the blue pencil, having saved an hour and a half by disemboweling the play, would at once proceed to waste two hours in building elaborate scenery… Joan would be burnt on stage […]
I have just read your lousy review buried in the back pages. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eight-ulcer man on a four-ulcer job, and all four ulcers working. I never met you, but if I do you’ll need a new nose and plenty of beefsteak and perhaps […]
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.
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
