Critics Quotes
I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.
Elizabeth George
People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about critics.
Jerry Lewis
In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively.
Joe Pantoliano
If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.
Barack Obama
I think I won't do for your business at all, but personally I have no fight with you. You can go on and save all the critics you can, but don't send them to me.
Frank Richard Stockton
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
Ralph Ellison
I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.
Neil LaBute
When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.
John C. Ransom
The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.
Brian Lumley
Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.
J. C. Watts
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
Edward Albee
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac Asimov
People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.
Louis de Bernieres
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
David Low
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
Peter Ustinov
For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.
Allen Tate
I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.
Michael Stipe
Well, they are critics of the Bush administration generally on the human rights record of the administration, and in particular, they are very, very critical of this use of science.
Jane Mayer