Critics Quotes

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

I mean, when I got to Brown, the place was riven, because you had older professors who were basically new critics and had been teaching a certain way for 30 years. And then you had this other gang who was down with the semiotic program. And as a student, you were, in a way, forced to choose which cohort you were going with.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.

I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!

After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.

In my career, my movies tend to polarize critics.

The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while.

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.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

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.

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.

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.

The Eagles and the critics were not the best of friends.

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.

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.

It's hard to market a movie when you're at the mercy of critics and journalists.

I never wish for critics.

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.

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

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.

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.