How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin DisraeliCritics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.
Jeffrey RobinsonAs for literary criticism in general: I have long felt that any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel or a play or a poem is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae or a banana split.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: writing literary-criticism bad-reviews critics reviewers
A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old stone some had already been used in building the house in which he actually lived, not far from the old house of his fathers. Of the rest he took some and built a tower. But his friends coming perceived at once (without troubling to climb the steps) that these stones had formerly belonged to a more ancient building. So they pushed the tower over, with no little labour, and in order to look for hidden carvings and inscriptions, or to discover whence the man's distant forefathers had obtained their building material. Some suspecting a deposit of coal under the soil began to dig for it, and forgot even the stones. They all said: 'This tower is most interesting.' But they also said (after pushing it over): 'What a muddle it is in!' And even the man's own descendants, who might have been expected to consider what he had been about, were heard to murmur: 'He is such an odd fellow! Imagine using these old stones just to build a nonsensical tower! Why did not he restore the old house? he had no sense of proportion.' But from the top of that tower the man had been able to look out upon the sea.
J.R.R. TolkienTags: literature fantasy criticism allegory critics beowulf
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs."
[Time Magazine, October 31, 1977]
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In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Edgar Allan PoeBeing a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art
David ToopHaving the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck
Eli WallachTags: criticism critics on-acting
Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so
Gertrude AthertonTags: imagination writers criticism critics
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything
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